By Stacker
Gas prices below are as of January 6. The state gas tax data is from World Population Review.
Illinois by the numbers
- Gas current price: $3.42
- Week change: +$0.15 (+4.4%)
- Year change: $-0.03 (+-0.9%)
- Gas tax: $0.39 per gallon (#6 highest among all states)
- Historical expensive gas price: $5.56 (6/13/22)
- Diesel current price: $4.56
- Week change: -$0.05 (-1.1%)
- Year change: +$1.01 (+28.4%)
- Historical expensive diesel price: $5.82 (6/25/22)
Metros with most expensive gas in Illinois
- City of Chicago: $3.84
- Chicago Metro: $3.52
- Carbondale-Marion: $3.48
- Quincy: $3.44
- Rockford: $3.42
- Peoria-Pekin: $3.38
- Lake County: $3.37
- Davenport-Moline-Rock Island (IL only): $3.35
- East Saint Louis: $3.35
- Kankakee-Bradley: $3.35
States with the most expensive gas
- Hawaii: $5.02
- California: $4.44
- Nevada: $3.98
States with the least expensive gas
- Georgia: $2.83
- Texas: $2.88
- Mississippi: $2.90
States with the highest gas tax per gallon
- Pennsylvania: $0.59
- California: $0.53
- Washington: $0.52
States with the lowest gas tax per gallon
- Alaska: $0.0895
- Hawaii: $0.16
- Virginia: $0.162