Release US-2026-09 · frozen 2026-09-04
Government Surplus Price Index: September 2026
The median US government surplus lot sold for $300. Across 135,590 completed US government auction lots in the 365 days to 2026-09-04.
These figures are frozen. They will not change, so a citation to this page will still be checkable next year. The live, daily-updated version is at the index page.
| Category | Median | Middle half | Lots |
|---|---|---|---|
| vehicles | $2,513 | $872 – $5,654 | 48,502 |
| electronics lots | $100 | $30 – $329 | 29,206 |
| office furniture lots14% of these lots cleared at exactly $1, so this median partly reflects a disposal policy rather than a market price. | $14 | $5 – $47 | 18,557 |
| industrial tools lots | $117 | $36 – $420 | 12,302 |
| heavy equipment lots | $1,725 | $436 – $6,751 | 7,568 |
| medical and scientific lots | $80 | $31 – $300 | 5,858 |
| military lots21% of these lots cleared at exactly $5, so this median partly reflects a disposal policy rather than a market price. | $123 | $18 – $506 | 4,349 |
| collectibles lots | $75 | $23 – $160 | 3,648 |
| jewelry lots | $127 | $47 – $473 | 2,890 |
| real estate lots | $3,200 | $701 – $45,100 | 721 |
| sporting goods lots | $82 | $27 – $190 | 500 |
| catering lots | $102 | $35 – $313 | 495 |
| appliance lots | $62 | $25 – $209 | 362 |
| art and decor lots | $90 | $65 – $118 | 268 |
| janitorial lots | $52 | $18 – $156 | 252 |
No movement figures in this release, deliberately
Levels only. Month-over-month and region-versus-region movement is withheld until the corpus has six or more complete months: with a shorter series, a change in a category median is dominated by a change in what was in the basket, and by flat-rate disposal lots whose price is an administrative convention. Each category's `modePrice`/`modeShare` shows how much of that contamination it carries.
Machine-readable: /data/price-index-releases/US-2026-09.json
Spreadsheet: Download CSV (one row per category, with source and licence on every row)
Method: how this index is built
Changelog: First release. Levels only; no movement figures published.
Other US releases
- US-2026-11 · November 2026 · median $230
- US-2026-10 · October 2026 · median $299
Cite this
In the US-2026-09 release of the GovAuctions.app Surplus Price Index, the median US government surplus lot sold for $300.
- Sample
- 135,590 lots
- As of
- 2026-09-04
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0
Method. Median final sale price across every completed US government surplus lot recorded in the 365 days to 2026-09-04, all categories pooled. Figures are frozen at publication and do not change.
Cite as. GovAuctions.app (2026). In the US-2026-09 release of the GovAuctions.app Surplus Price Index, the median US government surplus lot sold for $300. https://govauctions.app/research/surplus-price-index/us-2026-09
Free to use with attribution. The machine-readable version of this and every other number we publish, each with its sample size and method, is at /research/facts.json. Questions about the data are welcome via contact.