Release US-2026-10 · frozen 2026-10-01
Government Surplus Price Index: October 2026
The median US government surplus lot sold for $299. Across 164,281 completed US government auction lots in the 365 days to 2026-10-01.
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 | $2,501 | $851 – $5,575 | 58,196 |
| electronics lots | $98 | $30 – $320 | 35,664 |
| office furniture lots14% of these lots cleared at exactly $10, so this median partly reflects a disposal policy rather than a market price. | $14 | $5 – $47 | 22,192 |
| industrial tools lots | $120 | $38 – $413 | 15,108 |
| heavy equipment lots | $1,711 | $419 – $6,301 | 9,224 |
| medical and scientific lots | $79 | $30 – $297 | 6,850 |
| collectibles lots | $80 | $23 – $178 | 4,330 |
| military lots | $223 | $64 – $625 | 4,055 |
| jewelry lots | $130 | $45 – $480 | 3,790 |
| sporting goods lots | $74 | $25 – $205 | 1,198 |
| real estate lots | $4,850 | $1,000 – $49,900 | 909 |
| catering lots | $102 | $33 – $305 | 886 |
| appliance lots | $58 | $22 – $180 | 763 |
| janitorial lots | $52 | $18 – $161 | 466 |
| art and decor lots | $68 | $50 – $122 | 466 |
| building materials lots | $73 | $22 – $283 | 135 |
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-2026-10.json
Spreadsheet: Download CSV (one row per category, with source and licence on every row)
Method: how this index is built
Changelog: Release 2 for this market. Levels only; no movement figures published.
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In the US-2026-10 release of the GovAuctions.app Surplus Price Index, the median US government surplus lot sold for $299.
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- 164,281 lots
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- 2026-10-01
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Method. Median final sale price across every completed US government surplus lot recorded in the 365 days to 2026-10-01, all categories pooled. Figures are frozen at publication and do not change.
Cite as. GovAuctions.app (2026). In the US-2026-10 release of the GovAuctions.app Surplus Price Index, the median US government surplus lot sold for $299. https://govauctions.app/research/surplus-price-index/us-2026-10
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