What You Need to Know
- Nearly half of survey respondents place inflation among the three most pressing issues facing the country, along with health care and crime/gun violence.
- Some 40% think inflation rates will never go back down.
Seventy-eight percent of Americans believe inflation has become a crisis, according to a survey released this week by Clever Real Estate, a St. Louis-based real estate company.
Forty-seven percent place it among the three most pressing issues facing the country, along with health care and crime/gun violence (abortion/reproductive rights comes in at no. 4), and 23% rank inflation as the most pressing issue.
The proprietary data in the study came from an online survey commissioned by Clever Real Estate and fielded in mid-September among 1,000 adult Americans. Respondents answered up to 21 questions related to their views on inflation in the U.S.
So worried are Americans about this strain on their finances that 65% of those surveyed overestimated the September inflation rate, putting it at more than 9%. Only 25% accurately said the rate was between 8% and 9%; it was 8.3%.