Home energy use
Home energy use in Bassetlaw
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
- 2,480 kWh
- a year, about the same as Great Britain
- Gas, median home
- 9,880 kWh
- a year, about the same as Great Britain
- At today’s price cap
- £1,706
- a year for the median home
The typical home in Bassetlaw used 2,480 kWh of electricity and 9,880 kWh of gas in 2024. Against the typical home across Great Britain, that is about the same electricity and about the same gas.
Of 350 local authority areas in Great Britain, Bassetlaw comes 198th for electricity use and 170th 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 (3,355 kWh of electricity, 10,938 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 Bassetlaw medians would pay about £1,706 a year: £824 for electricity and £882 for gas, standing charges included. The same sum for the Great Britain medians comes to £1,745. Bassetlaw sits across two electricity regions, so these blend their rates by where its homes are.
Bassetlaw is split between electricity regions: East Midlands (about 83% of homes) and Yorkshire (about 17% 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 23% and its gas use has fallen 19%. 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
- Chorley2,490 / 9,870 kWh
- East Staffordshire2,462 / 9,855 kWh
- North Northamptonshire2,515 / 9,909 kWh
- Milton Keynes2,525 / 9,813 kWh
- Coventry2,428 / 9,859 kWh
Median electricity / gas, nearest to Bassetlaw.
Elsewhere in East Midlands
- Amber Valley
- Ashfield
- Blaby
- Bolsover
- Boston
- Broxtowe
- Charnwood
- Chesterfield
- Derby
- Derbyshire Dales
- East Lindsey
- Erewash
- Gedling
- Harborough
- High Peak
- Hinckley and Bosworth
- Leicester
- Lincoln
- Mansfield
- Melton
- Newark and Sherwood
- North East Derbyshire
- North Kesteven
- North Northamptonshire
- North West Leicestershire
- Nottingham
- Oadby and Wigston
- Rushcliffe
- Rutland
- South Derbyshire
- South Holland
- South Kesteven
- West Lindsey
- West Northamptonshire
Common questions
- How much electricity does a home in Bassetlaw use?
- The median home used 2,480 kWh of electricity in 2024, against 2,471 kWh across Great Britain. The mean was higher, 3,355 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 Bassetlaw use?
- The median home with a gas meter used 9,880 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 Bassetlaw?
- At the price cap for 1 October 2026 to 31 December 2026, a home using the Bassetlaw medians would pay about £1,706 a year, standing charges included. Your own bill depends on your own use, which is on your bill or in your supplier’s app.