Home energy use
Home energy use by area
How much electricity and gas the typical home uses in each of 350 council areas in England, Scotland and Wales, from the government’s meter readings for 2024. Across Great Britain the median home used 2,471 kWh of electricity and 9,859 kWh of gas.
Verified: 23 October 2026 from DESNZ subnational consumption statistics
Where these figures come fromMost electricity
- Isles of Scilly5,034 kWh
- Orkney Islands4,315 kWh
- Shetland Islands4,152 kWh
- Na h-Eileanan Siar3,329 kWh
- Elmbridge3,141 kWh
Least electricity
- Islington1,955 kWh
- Camden1,962 kWh
- Glasgow City1,972 kWh
- Aberdeen City2,023 kWh
- Hammersmith and Fulham2,059 kWh
Most gas
- Harrow13,715 kWh
- Elmbridge13,198 kWh
- East Renfrewshire13,191 kWh
- Mole Valley13,028 kWh
- East Dunbartonshire12,975 kWh
Least gas
- City of London6,284 kWh
- Plymouth6,715 kWh
- Tower Hamlets7,032 kWh
- Cornwall7,102 kWh
- Islington7,271 kWh
350 areas. Median electricity and gas, kWh a year.
North East
- County Durham2,202 / 10,636
- Darlington2,266 / 10,325
- Gateshead2,164 / 10,503
- Hartlepool2,196 / 9,731
- Middlesbrough2,261 / 9,900
- Newcastle upon Tyne2,236 / 10,607
- North Tyneside2,148 / 10,334
- Northumberland2,326 / 10,333
- Redcar and Cleveland2,202 / 9,847
- South Tyneside2,070 / 9,692
- Stockton-on-Tees2,321 / 10,247
- Sunderland2,146 / 10,433
North West
- Blackburn with Darwen2,409 / 10,768
- Blackpool2,364 / 9,258
- Bolton2,428 / 10,223
- Burnley2,304 / 9,812
- Bury2,458 / 10,430
- Cheshire East2,606 / 10,437
- Cheshire West and Chester2,515 / 9,638
- Chorley2,490 / 9,870
- Cumberland2,385 / 9,998
- Fylde2,539 / 10,192
- Halton2,414 / 8,871
- Hyndburn2,270 / 9,902
- Knowsley2,356 / 8,808
- Lancaster2,386 / 9,456
- Liverpool2,266 / 9,023
- Manchester2,606 / 9,271
- Oldham2,389 / 10,292
- Pendle2,296 / 10,600
- Preston2,411 / 9,613
- Ribble Valley2,601 / 10,507
- Rochdale2,417 / 9,863
- Rossendale2,505 / 10,958
- Salford2,614 / 9,257
- Sefton2,372 / 9,836
- South Ribble2,441 / 9,629
- St. Helens2,311 / 9,179
- Stockport2,586 / 11,013
- Tameside2,345 / 9,579
- Trafford2,669 / 11,340
- Warrington2,457 / 9,664
- West Lancashire2,592 / 10,074
- Westmorland and Furness2,471 / 9,658
- Wigan2,374 / 9,154
- Wirral2,398 / 9,737
- Wyre2,439 / 9,706
Yorkshire and The Humber
- Barnsley2,278 / 9,782
- Bradford2,450 / 11,464
- Calderdale2,418 / 10,655
- Doncaster2,321 / 9,875
- East Riding of Yorkshire2,416 / 10,225
- Kingston upon Hull2,205 / 8,841
- Kirklees2,381 / 10,854
- Leeds2,416 / 10,231
- North East Lincolnshire2,316 / 9,441
- North Lincolnshire2,380 / 10,054
- North Yorkshire2,525 / 10,219
- Rotherham2,303 / 9,948
- Sheffield2,312 / 10,450
- Wakefield2,278 / 9,653
- York2,408 / 10,436
East Midlands
- Amber Valley2,440 / 10,215
- Ashfield2,397 / 10,215
- Bassetlaw2,480 / 9,880
- Blaby2,542 / 10,692
- Bolsover2,330 / 9,979
- Boston2,489 / 9,522
- Broxtowe2,417 / 10,464
- Charnwood2,426 / 10,108
- Chesterfield2,245 / 9,682
- Derby2,418 / 9,877
- Derbyshire Dales2,575 / 11,149
- East Lindsey2,603 / 9,193
- Erewash2,412 / 9,869
- Gedling2,500 / 10,820
- Harborough2,693 / 10,882
- High Peak2,470 / 10,692
- Hinckley and Bosworth2,525 / 10,102
- Leicester2,399 / 11,111
- Lincoln2,210 / 8,755
- Mansfield2,309 / 10,661
- Melton2,586 / 10,037
- Newark and Sherwood2,524 / 10,121
- North East Derbyshire2,387 / 10,433
- North Kesteven2,565 / 9,660
- North Northamptonshire2,515 / 9,909
- North West Leicestershire2,599 / 10,426
- Nottingham2,400 / 9,497
- Oadby and Wigston2,443 / 11,371
- Rushcliffe2,597 / 11,097
- Rutland2,702 / 11,248
- South Derbyshire2,525 / 9,595
- South Holland2,642 / 9,639
- South Kesteven2,594 / 9,701
- West Lindsey2,566 / 9,972
- West Northamptonshire2,656 / 10,052
West Midlands
- Birmingham2,586 / 11,144
- Bromsgrove2,799 / 11,450
- Cannock Chase2,530 / 10,151
- Coventry2,428 / 9,859
- Dudley2,499 / 10,280
- East Staffordshire2,462 / 9,855
- Herefordshire2,713 / 8,586
- Lichfield2,632 / 10,630
- Malvern Hills2,763 / 9,188
- Newcastle-under-Lyme2,414 / 10,465
- North Warwickshire2,671 / 10,295
- Nuneaton and Bedworth2,436 / 9,699
- Redditch2,490 / 9,287
- Rugby2,586 / 10,251
- Sandwell2,464 / 10,300
- Shropshire2,619 / 9,099
- Solihull2,710 / 11,356
- South Staffordshire2,636 / 10,903
- Stafford2,517 / 10,258
- Staffordshire Moorlands2,532 / 10,954
- Stoke-on-Trent2,298 / 9,790
- Stratford-on-Avon2,796 / 9,597
- Tamworth2,548 / 9,516
- Telford and Wrekin2,404 / 9,101
- Walsall2,585 / 10,470
- Warwick2,577 / 10,029
- Wolverhampton2,533 / 10,656
- Worcester2,442 / 8,905
- Wychavon2,730 / 9,177
- Wyre Forest2,506 / 9,344
East of England
- Babergh2,710 / 9,543
- Basildon2,723 / 9,778
- Bedford2,572 / 9,960
- Braintree2,734 / 9,697
- Breckland2,734 / 8,911
- Brentwood2,905 / 12,340
- Broadland2,524 / 9,657
- Broxbourne2,735 / 10,536
- Cambridge2,247 / 9,564
- Castle Point2,853 / 11,356
- Central Bedfordshire2,630 / 9,996
- Chelmsford2,774 / 10,544
- Colchester2,585 / 9,636
- Dacorum2,682 / 10,988
- East Cambridgeshire2,700 / 9,679
- East Hertfordshire2,844 / 10,933
- East Suffolk2,458 / 9,184
- Epping Forest2,924 / 11,598
- Fenland2,640 / 9,630
- Great Yarmouth2,448 / 8,142
- Harlow2,432 / 9,138
- Hertsmere2,842 / 12,051
- Huntingdonshire2,587 / 9,755
- Ipswich2,411 / 9,039
- King's Lynn and West Norfolk2,778 / 9,311
- Luton2,513 / 11,383
- Maldon2,954 / 10,000
- Mid Suffolk2,831 / 8,403
- North Hertfordshire2,721 / 10,622
- North Norfolk2,591 / 9,064
- Norwich2,117 / 8,063
- Peterborough2,374 / 9,199
- Rochford2,817 / 11,317
- South Cambridgeshire2,796 / 10,190
- South Norfolk2,710 / 8,977
- Southend-on-Sea2,517 / 10,646
- St Albans2,884 / 12,782
- Stevenage2,449 / 9,604
- Tendring2,472 / 9,424
- Three Rivers2,940 / 12,473
- Thurrock2,797 / 9,701
- Uttlesford3,030 / 11,171
- Watford2,582 / 10,890
- Welwyn Hatfield2,657 / 10,712
- West Suffolk2,570 / 8,998
London
- Barking and Dagenham2,428 / 9,591
- Barnet2,620 / 12,471
- Bexley2,658 / 11,043
- Brent2,346 / 11,522
- Bromley2,654 / 11,960
- Camden1,962 / 8,130
- City of London2,714 / 6,284
- Croydon2,504 / 11,116
- Ealing2,373 / 10,784
- Enfield2,621 / 11,380
- Greenwich2,246 / 9,533
- Hackney2,089 / 7,628
- Hammersmith and Fulham2,059 / 8,243
- Haringey2,156 / 9,563
- Harrow2,586 / 13,715
- Havering2,658 / 10,978
- Hillingdon2,685 / 11,700
- Hounslow2,547 / 10,772
- Islington1,955 / 7,271
- Kensington and Chelsea2,133 / 8,410
- Kingston upon Thames2,628 / 11,170
- Lambeth2,061 / 8,138
- Lewisham2,248 / 9,154
- Merton2,507 / 10,517
- Newham2,282 / 9,325
- Redbridge2,720 / 12,222
- Richmond upon Thames2,576 / 11,183
- Southwark2,140 / 7,421
- Sutton2,634 / 11,006
- Tower Hamlets2,155 / 7,032
- Waltham Forest2,309 / 9,940
- Wandsworth2,206 / 8,917
- Westminster2,135 / 7,399
South East
- Adur2,506 / 8,743
- Arun2,468 / 9,207
- Ashford2,692 / 9,309
- Basingstoke and Deane2,694 / 9,690
- Bracknell Forest2,810 / 10,353
- Brighton and Hove2,252 / 8,715
- Buckinghamshire2,939 / 11,974
- Canterbury2,444 / 9,682
- Cherwell2,734 / 9,706
- Chichester2,752 / 9,431
- Crawley2,511 / 9,450
- Dartford2,512 / 9,537
- Dover2,288 / 8,604
- East Hampshire2,884 / 10,657
- Eastbourne2,226 / 8,406
- Eastleigh2,516 / 9,027
- Elmbridge3,141 / 13,198
- Epsom and Ewell2,857 / 12,812
- Fareham2,563 / 9,441
- Folkestone and Hythe2,358 / 8,943
- Gosport2,429 / 8,020
- Gravesham2,562 / 9,971
- Guildford2,896 / 11,741
- Hart2,943 / 12,224
- Hastings2,315 / 8,657
- Havant2,551 / 9,065
- Horsham2,846 / 10,087
- Isle of Wight2,356 / 8,100
- Lewes2,545 / 9,368
- Maidstone2,663 / 9,692
- Medway2,558 / 9,370
- Mid Sussex2,740 / 10,346
- Milton Keynes2,525 / 9,813
- Mole Valley3,070 / 13,028
- New Forest2,637 / 9,805
- Oxford2,484 / 10,502
- Portsmouth2,329 / 8,205
- Reading2,534 / 10,096
- Reigate and Banstead2,868 / 11,830
- Rother2,641 / 10,190
- Runnymede2,922 / 11,525
- Rushmoor2,545 / 9,958
- Sevenoaks3,044 / 11,899
- Slough2,684 / 10,468
- South Oxfordshire2,886 / 10,536
- Southampton2,512 / 8,621
- Spelthorne2,781 / 11,084
- Surrey Heath3,044 / 12,965
- Swale2,593 / 9,050
- Tandridge3,074 / 12,843
- Test Valley2,750 / 9,048
- Thanet2,292 / 8,685
- Tonbridge and Malling2,736 / 10,131
- Tunbridge Wells2,850 / 10,932
- Vale of White Horse2,699 / 10,009
- Waverley3,021 / 12,512
- Wealden2,841 / 10,018
- West Berkshire3,053 / 10,784
- West Oxfordshire2,853 / 10,142
- Winchester2,739 / 9,769
- Windsor and Maidenhead2,955 / 12,106
- Woking2,995 / 11,951
- Wokingham2,889 / 11,759
- Worthing2,442 / 8,886
South West
- Bath and North East Somerset2,588 / 9,651
- Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole2,395 / 9,070
- Bristol2,413 / 8,543
- Cheltenham2,383 / 9,218
- Cornwall2,911 / 7,102
- Cotswold3,036 / 10,249
- Dorset2,530 / 8,913
- East Devon2,446 / 8,364
- Exeter2,269 / 7,529
- Forest of Dean2,768 / 9,001
- Gloucester2,480 / 8,861
- Isles of Scilly5,034 / no gas
- Mid Devon2,800 / 7,643
- North Devon2,570 / 7,954
- North Somerset2,501 / 8,817
- Plymouth2,325 / 6,715
- Somerset2,628 / 8,172
- South Gloucestershire2,550 / 8,883
- South Hams2,706 / 7,932
- Stroud2,701 / 9,475
- Swindon2,493 / 9,442
- Teignbridge2,537 / 7,892
- Tewkesbury2,519 / 8,721
- Torbay2,397 / 8,017
- Torridge2,702 / 7,422
- West Devon2,777 / 8,290
- Wiltshire2,791 / 9,170
Wales
- Blaenau Gwent2,260 / 10,612
- Bridgend2,355 / 9,464
- Caerphilly2,350 / 10,112
- Cardiff2,421 / 9,130
- Carmarthenshire2,506 / 9,145
- Ceredigion2,954 / 8,333
- Conwy2,313 / 8,671
- Denbighshire2,496 / 8,938
- Flintshire2,494 / 9,289
- Gwynedd2,590 / 8,323
- Isle of Anglesey2,688 / 8,121
- Merthyr Tydfil2,300 / 10,966
- Monmouthshire2,566 / 9,421
- Neath Port Talbot2,311 / 9,306
- Newport2,368 / 8,922
- Pembrokeshire2,499 / 8,289
- Powys2,682 / 8,705
- Rhondda Cynon Taf2,284 / 10,136
- Swansea2,291 / 9,450
- Torfaen2,323 / 9,154
- Vale of Glamorgan2,474 / 9,045
- Wrexham2,472 / 9,124
Scotland
- Aberdeen City2,023 / 9,534
- Aberdeenshire2,843 / 11,994
- Angus2,509 / 10,339
- Argyll and Bute2,915 / 10,715
- City of Edinburgh2,104 / 8,598
- Clackmannanshire2,277 / 9,953
- Dumfries and Galloway2,531 / 10,235
- Dundee City2,276 / 9,225
- East Ayrshire2,187 / 10,405
- East Dunbartonshire2,520 / 12,975
- East Lothian2,403 / 9,849
- East Renfrewshire2,603 / 13,191
- Falkirk2,280 / 10,521
- Fife2,245 / 10,454
- Glasgow City1,972 / 7,999
- Highland2,985 / 10,304
- Inverclyde2,145 / 10,157
- Midlothian2,334 / 10,180
- Moray2,538 / 10,412
- Na h-Eileanan Siar3,329 / 7,868
- North Ayrshire2,185 / 9,754
- North Lanarkshire2,264 / 10,555
- Orkney Islands4,315 / no gas
- Perth and Kinross2,659 / 10,699
- Renfrewshire2,150 / 9,635
- Scottish Borders2,456 / 10,073
- Shetland Islands4,152 / no gas
- South Ayrshire2,251 / 10,257
- South Lanarkshire2,359 / 10,927
- Stirling2,524 / 11,099
- West Dunbartonshire2,066 / 8,806
- West Lothian2,382 / 10,908
Common questions
- How much energy does a typical UK home use?
- In 2024 the median home in Great Britain used 2,471 kWh of electricity and, among homes with mains gas, 9,859 kWh of gas. The means were higher, 3,323 kWh and 11,359 kWh, because a minority of heavy users pulls an average up.
- Which area uses the most electricity?
- Isles of Scilly, where the median home used 5,034 kWh in 2024. Four of the five highest have little or no mains gas, so many homes there heat with electricity. The lowest is Islington, at 1,955 kWh.
- Which area uses the most gas?
- Harrow, where the median home with mains gas used 13,715 kWh in 2024. The lowest is City of London, at 6,284 kWh.
An area’s figure is a guide, not a target: the same street can hold a flat using 1,500 kWh and a family house using 5,000. To compare your own home, the electricity benchmark matches you against homes of the same type.
Northern Ireland isn’t included: DESNZ’s statistics cover Great Britain. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.