Release US-2026-11 · frozen 2026-11-01
Government Surplus Price Index: November 2026
The median US government surplus lot sold for $230. Across 209,997 completed US government auction lots in the 365 days to 2026-11-01.
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 | $2,500 | $855 – $5,540 | 68,909 |
| electronics lots | $86 | $26 – $280 | 46,226 |
| office furniture lots15% of these lots cleared at exactly $1, so this median partly reflects a disposal policy rather than a market price. | $12 | $5 – $42 | 29,788 |
| industrial tools lots | $102 | $32 – $380 | 20,273 |
| heavy equipment lots | $1,525 | $365 – $5,550 | 11,339 |
| medical and scientific lots | $77 | $29 – $295 | 8,190 |
| military lots | $233 | $62 – $573 | 5,895 |
| jewelry lots23% of these lots cleared at exactly $1, so this median partly reflects a disposal policy rather than a market price. | $101 | $31 – $365 | 5,603 |
| collectibles lots11% of these lots cleared at exactly $1, so this median partly reflects a disposal policy rather than a market price. | $75 | $20 – $170 | 5,107 |
| sporting goods lots | $45 | $11 – $150 | 2,716 |
| catering lots | $100 | $31 – $300 | 1,609 |
| appliance lots | $56 | $22 – $150 | 1,479 |
| real estate lots | $5,500 | $1,201 – $52,050 | 1,003 |
| janitorial lots26% of these lots cleared at exactly $1, so this median partly reflects a disposal policy rather than a market price. | $47 | $14 – $140 | 914 |
| art and decor lots | $65 | $22 – $112 | 623 |
| building materials lots | $111 | $24 – $540 | 266 |
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-2026-11.json
Spreadsheet: Download CSV (one row per category, with source and licence on every row)
Method: how this index is built
Changelog: Release 3 for this market. Levels only; no movement figures published.
Other US releases
- US-2026-10 · October 2026 · median $299
- US-2026-09 · September 2026 · median $300
Cite this
In the US-2026-11 release of the GovAuctions.app Surplus Price Index, the median US government surplus lot sold for $230.
- Sample
- 209,997 lots
- As of
- 2026-11-01
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0
Method. Median final sale price across every completed US government surplus lot recorded in the 365 days to 2026-11-01, all categories pooled. Figures are frozen at publication and do not change.
Cite as. GovAuctions.app (2026). In the US-2026-11 release of the GovAuctions.app Surplus Price Index, the median US government surplus lot sold for $230. https://govauctions.app/research/surplus-price-index/us-2026-11
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.