U.S. retail price of eggs 1995-2022

In 2022, the retail price for a dozen eggs in the United States was 4.25 U.S. dollars. Egg prices in the United States peaked in this year. Previously, the highest average price was in 2015, when a dozen eggs cost 2.75 U.S. dollars on average.

U.S. Egg Production

The United States was one of the leading producers of eggs in the world in 2021, ranking fourth behind China, India, and Indonesia. In that year, approximately 110.7 billion eggs were produced in the United States. There are two main categories that farm chickens fall into: broiler chickens and laying hens. The first are raised for meat and the second are raised for laying eggs. The U.S. state with the most laying hens is Iowa, with about 48.9 million in 2021. Some of the other top egg producing states include Indiana, Ohio, and Pennsylvania.

Egg Retail in the United States

Perhaps because eggs are uniform in taste and appearance and most consumers cannot tell one brand of chicken egg apart from another, private label eggs have the highest sales among fresh egg brands in the United States. Eggland’s Best is the leading name brand of fresh eggs in the United States, with sales of 246.5 million U.S. dollars in 2021. The amount that U.S. consumer units spend on eggs varies from region to region. In 2021, consumers in the Western United States spent an average of about 78 U.S. dollars on eggs over the course of the year. The Southern United States had the lowest average expenditure on eggs in that year.