English McMuffin®

English McMuffin® at McDonald's. 160 calories, $1.80.

160calories
$1.80price
89calories per dollar

How it compares on the McDonald's menu

At 160 calories it is lighter than 73% of the 624 McDonald's items we track, against a menu median of 281. At 89 calories per dollar it is 117th of 184 priced items on value.

What a English McMuffin® costs across America

Priced at 12234 McDonald's restaurants in 50 states on the same day. The middle 80% of them charge between $1.49 and $2.29, a spread of 54%.

$1.80median price
$1.49–$2.29middle 80%
12234restaurants priced
50states
270 restaurants at $1.19–$1.28264 restaurants at $1.28–$1.38671 restaurants at $1.38–$1.47898 restaurants at $1.47–$1.561295 restaurants at $1.56–$1.651213 restaurants at $1.65–$1.751520 restaurants at $1.75–$1.841353 restaurants at $1.84–$1.931861 restaurants at $1.93–$2.03299 restaurants at $2.03–$2.121052 restaurants at $2.12–$2.21521 restaurants at $2.21–$2.30375 restaurants at $2.30–$2.40642 restaurants at $2.40 and above$1.19$2.40+

Each bar is the number of restaurants charging that price, and the gold bar holds the median. The last gathers everything at that price and above, so one distant outlier cannot flatten the rest.

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$0.49cheapest sampled — Chicago, IL
$4.49most expensive sampled — Waycross, GA

The cheapest English McMuffin® in the sample is $0.49 in Chicago, IL, and the most expensive is $4.49 in Waycross, GA. Both are single restaurants, which is why the headline above uses the middle 80% instead.

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By state, for what it is worth

About half the variation happens between restaurants inside one state, so a state median hides as much as it shows. Of the 50 states with at least three sampled restaurants, these are the four cheapest and the four most expensive — the 42 in between are not listed.

StateMedianRestaurantsEnd
TX$1.591067cheapest
MS$1.59103cheapest
IN$1.59346cheapest
UT$1.59108cheapest
HI$2.5462most expensive
MT$2.5017most expensive
SD$2.2917most expensive
CA$2.291119most expensive

What it has cost since we started watching

272 of the 12,237 restaurants we price have changed this since 2026-09-01. Where it moved, the typical change was +5.1%. A typical one now charges $1.80.

$1.69$1.79$1.902026-09-01 - $1.79 - median of 449 restaurants2026-09-02 - $1.79 - median of 449 restaurants2026-09-03 - $1.79 - median of 12,203 restaurants2026-09-04 - $1.79 - median of 12,211 restaurants2026-09-05 - $1.79 - median of 12,222 restaurants2026-09-06 - $1.79 - median of 12,222 restaurants2026-09-07 - $1.79 - median of 12,222 restaurants2026-09-08 - $1.79 - median of 12,222 restaurants2026-09-09 - $1.79 - median of 12,222 restaurants2026-09-10 - $1.79 - median of 12,222 restaurants2026-09-11 - $1.79 - median of 12,222 restaurants2026-09-12 - $1.79 - median of 12,222 restaurants2026-09-13 - $1.79 - median of 12,222 restaurants2026-09-14 - $1.80 - median of 12,223 restaurants2026-09-15 - $1.79 - median of 12,223 restaurants2026-09-16 - $1.79 - median of 12,223 restaurants2026-09-17 - $1.79 - median of 12,223 restaurants2026-09-18 - $1.79 - median of 12,226 restaurants2026-09-19 - $1.79 - median of 12,226 restaurants2026-09-20 - $1.79 - median of 12,227 restaurants2026-09-21 - $1.79 - median of 12,227 restaurants2026-09-22 - $1.79 - median of 12,227 restaurants2026-09-23 - $1.80 - median of 12,229 restaurants2026-09-24 - $1.80 - median of 12,229 restaurants2026-09-25 - $1.80 - median of 12,237 restaurants2026-09-26 - $1.80 - median of 12,237 restaurants2026-09-012026-09-26

2026-09-01 · $1.79 to 2026-09-26 · $1.80. Point at a day, or tab to it, for that day's median and how many restaurants it came from.

The median across the restaurants priced each day. It can step when our coverage of the chain grows, which is why the sentence above counts restaurants rather than reading this line.

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Priced like this at McDonald's

The 5 items whose national median sits closest to the English McMuffin®’s $1.80. The spread is the middle 80% of restaurants, so a wide one means the same item costs noticeably different amounts depending where you buy it.

ItemMedianSpreadRestaurants
Sausage McMuffin®$1.8966%12,232
Sausage Biscuit$1.8967%12,225
Apple Pie$1.8945%12,181
Sausage Gravy$1.89108%3,649
2 Cookies$1.98100%7,739

Calorie and price data come from McDonald's's own ordering system. USDA does not publish a full nutrient panel for this item.