Home energy use
Home energy use in Barking and Dagenham
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
- 2,428 kWh
- a year, 2% less than Great Britain
- Gas, median home
- 9,591 kWh
- a year, 3% less than Great Britain
- At today’s price cap
- £1,698
- a year for the median home
The typical home in Barking and Dagenham used 2,428 kWh of electricity and 9,591 kWh of gas in 2024. Against the typical home across Great Britain, that is 2% less electricity and 3% less gas.
Of 350 local authority areas in Great Britain, Barking and Dagenham comes 226th for electricity use and 220th 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 (3,119 kWh of electricity, 10,638 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 Barking and Dagenham medians would pay about £1,698 a year: £820 for electricity and £878 for gas, standing charges included. The same sum for the Great Britain medians comes to £1,745. Barking and Dagenham sits across two electricity regions, so these blend their rates by where its homes are.
Barking and Dagenham is split between electricity regions: East of England (about 52% of homes) and London (about 48% 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 21% and its gas use has fallen 9%.
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
- South Ribble2,441 / 9,629 kWh
- Preston2,411 / 9,613 kWh
- Stevenage2,449 / 9,604 kWh
- Canterbury2,444 / 9,682 kWh
- Nuneaton and Bedworth2,436 / 9,699 kWh
Median electricity / gas, nearest to Barking and Dagenham.
Elsewhere in London
- Barnet
- Bexley
- Brent
- Bromley
- Camden
- City of London
- Croydon
- Ealing
- Enfield
- Greenwich
- Hackney
- Hammersmith and Fulham
- Haringey
- Harrow
- Havering
- Hillingdon
- Hounslow
- Islington
- Kensington and Chelsea
- Kingston upon Thames
- Lambeth
- Lewisham
- Merton
- Newham
- Redbridge
- Richmond upon Thames
- Southwark
- Sutton
- Tower Hamlets
- Waltham Forest
- Wandsworth
- Westminster
Common questions
- How much electricity does a home in Barking and Dagenham use?
- The median home used 2,428 kWh of electricity in 2024, against 2,471 kWh across Great Britain. The mean was higher, 3,119 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 Barking and Dagenham use?
- The median home with a gas meter used 9,591 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 Barking and Dagenham?
- At the price cap for 1 October 2026 to 31 December 2026, a home using the Barking and Dagenham medians would pay about £1,698 a year, standing charges included. Your own bill depends on your own use, which is on your bill or in your supplier’s app.