Home energy use
Home energy use in Arun
How much electricity and gas the typical home here uses, from meter readings for every home in Great Britain, and how that compares with everywhere else.
- Electricity, median home
- 2,468 kWh
- a year, about the same as Great Britain
- Gas, median home
- 9,207 kWh
- a year, 7% less than Great Britain
- At today’s price cap
- £1,693
- a year for the median home
The typical home in Arun used 2,468 kWh of electricity and 9,207 kWh of gas in 2024. Against the typical home across Great Britain, that is about the same electricity and 7% less gas.
Of 350 local authority areas in Great Britain, Arun comes 205th for electricity use and 256th of 347 for gas, counting from the highest. These are medians: half the homes here use more and half use less. The mean is higher (3,305 kWh of electricity, 10,676 kWh of gas) because a minority of big users pulls an average up.
What it costs
At the price cap for 1 October 2026 to 31 December 2026, a home using exactly the Arun medians would pay about £1,693 a year: £839 for electricity and £854 for gas, standing charges included. The same sum for the Great Britain medians comes to £1,745. Arun sits across two electricity regions, so these blend their rates by where its homes are.
Arun is split between electricity regions: Southern England (about 58% of homes) and South East England (about 42% of homes). See every region’s rates on energy prices by region.
Your own use is on your bill or in your supplier’s app. Put it into the direct debit checker to see whether you are paying the right amount each month.
Over the last ten years
Since 2015, the typical home’s electricity use here has fallen 24% and its gas use has fallen 20%. The biggest drop came in 2022, the year of the energy price crisis, and use has stayed close to that lower level since.
How does your home compare?
- Is my electricity use normal? Your yearly use against homes like yours, by property type, heat pump and electric car.
- Electricity smart meter analyser and gas analyser read your supplier’s download and show what your home uses hour by hour, without the file leaving your device.
- Heat pump calculator What a heat pump would cost to run against your gas boiler.
- Grant checker Including the Boiler Upgrade Scheme, which covers England.
Areas with similar use
- East Suffolk2,458 / 9,184 kWh
- Wrexham2,472 / 9,124 kWh
- Redditch2,490 / 9,287 kWh
- Flintshire2,494 / 9,289 kWh
- Harlow2,432 / 9,138 kWh
Median electricity / gas, nearest to Arun.
Elsewhere in South East
- Adur
- Ashford
- Basingstoke and Deane
- Bracknell Forest
- Brighton and Hove
- Buckinghamshire
- Canterbury
- Cherwell
- Chichester
- Crawley
- Dartford
- Dover
- East Hampshire
- Eastbourne
- Eastleigh
- Elmbridge
- Epsom and Ewell
- Fareham
- Folkestone and Hythe
- Gosport
- Gravesham
- Guildford
- Hart
- Hastings
- Havant
- Horsham
- Isle of Wight
- Lewes
- Maidstone
- Medway
- Mid Sussex
- Milton Keynes
- Mole Valley
- New Forest
- Oxford
- Portsmouth
- Reading
- Reigate and Banstead
- Rother
- Runnymede
- Rushmoor
- Sevenoaks
- Slough
- South Oxfordshire
- Southampton
- Spelthorne
- Surrey Heath
- Swale
- Tandridge
- Test Valley
- Thanet
- Tonbridge and Malling
- Tunbridge Wells
- Vale of White Horse
- Waverley
- Wealden
- West Berkshire
- West Oxfordshire
- Winchester
- Windsor and Maidenhead
- Woking
- Wokingham
- Worthing
Common questions
- How much electricity does a home in Arun use?
- The median home used 2,468 kWh of electricity in 2024, against 2,471 kWh across Great Britain. The mean was higher, 3,305 kWh, because a minority of heavy users pulls an average up; the median is the household in the middle.
- How much gas does a home in Arun use?
- The median home with a gas meter used 9,207 kWh of gas in 2024, against 9,859 kWh across Great Britain. The figures are weather-corrected by DESNZ, so a cold winter doesn’t make one area look worse than another.
- What does energy cost for a typical home in Arun?
- At the price cap for 1 October 2026 to 31 December 2026, a home using the Arun medians would pay about £1,693 a year, standing charges included. Your own bill depends on your own use, which is on your bill or in your supplier’s app.