Home energy use
Home energy use in Barnet
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
- 2,620 kWh
- a year, 6% more than Great Britain
- Gas, median home
- 12,471 kWh
- a year, 26% more than Great Britain
- At today’s price cap
- £1,980
- a year for the median home
The typical home in Barnet used 2,620 kWh of electricity and 12,471 kWh of gas in 2024. Against the typical home across Great Britain, that is 6% more electricity and 26% more gas.
Of 350 local authority areas in Great Britain, Barnet comes 109th for electricity use and 12th 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 (3,716 kWh of electricity, 15,120 kWh of gas) because a minority of big users pulls an average up.
22% of electricity meters here are on Economy 7 or a similar day and night meter, against 12% across Great Britain. That usually means electric storage heaters or a hot water cylinder heated overnight, and it is worth checking your night rate is the one you are using most.
What it costs
At the price cap for 1 October 2026 to 31 December 2026, a home using exactly the Barnet medians would pay about £1,980 a year: £886 for electricity and £1,094 for gas, standing charges included. The same sum for the Great Britain medians comes to £1,745. These use the East of England region’s rates.
Barnet is in the East of England electricity region. 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 14%.
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
- Redbridge2,720 / 12,222 kWh
- Bromley2,654 / 11,960 kWh
- East Dunbartonshire2,520 / 12,975 kWh
- East Renfrewshire2,603 / 13,191 kWh
- Hillingdon2,685 / 11,700 kWh
Median electricity / gas, nearest to Barnet.
Elsewhere in London
- Barking and Dagenham
- 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 Barnet use?
- The median home used 2,620 kWh of electricity in 2024, against 2,471 kWh across Great Britain. The mean was higher, 3,716 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 Barnet use?
- The median home with a gas meter used 12,471 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 Barnet?
- At the price cap for 1 October 2026 to 31 December 2026, a home using the Barnet medians would pay about £1,980 a year, standing charges included. Your own bill depends on your own use, which is on your bill or in your supplier’s app.