Home energy use
Home energy use in Broadland
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
- 2,524 kWh
- a year, 2% more than Great Britain
- Gas, median home
- 9,657 kWh
- a year, 2% less than Great Britain
- At today’s price cap
- £1,732
- a year for the median home
The typical home in Broadland used 2,524 kWh of electricity and 9,657 kWh of gas in 2024. Against the typical home across Great Britain, that is 2% more electricity and 2% less gas.
Of 350 local authority areas in Great Britain, Broadland comes 166th for electricity use and 207th 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 (3,494 kWh of electricity, 10,705 kWh of gas) because a minority of big users pulls an average up.
Only about 79% of homes in Broadland have a mains gas meter, against about 84% across Great Britain. Homes off the gas grid heat with electricity, oil, LPG or solid fuel, which tends to push electricity use 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 Broadland medians would pay about £1,732 a year: £861 for electricity and £871 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.
Broadland 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 25% and its gas use has fallen 22%. 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
- Cheshire West and Chester2,515 / 9,638 kWh
- South Derbyshire2,525 / 9,595 kWh
- Dartford2,512 / 9,537 kWh
- Milton Keynes2,525 / 9,813 kWh
- North Kesteven2,565 / 9,660 kWh
Median electricity / gas, nearest to Broadland.
Elsewhere in East of England
- Babergh
- Basildon
- Bedford
- Braintree
- Breckland
- Brentwood
- Broxbourne
- Cambridge
- Castle Point
- Central Bedfordshire
- Chelmsford
- Colchester
- Dacorum
- East Cambridgeshire
- East Hertfordshire
- East Suffolk
- Epping Forest
- Fenland
- Great Yarmouth
- Harlow
- Hertsmere
- Huntingdonshire
- Ipswich
- King's Lynn and West Norfolk
- Luton
- Maldon
- Mid Suffolk
- North Hertfordshire
- North Norfolk
- Norwich
- Peterborough
- Rochford
- South Cambridgeshire
- South Norfolk
- Southend-on-Sea
- St Albans
- Stevenage
- Tendring
- Three Rivers
- Thurrock
- Uttlesford
- Watford
- Welwyn Hatfield
- West Suffolk
Common questions
- How much electricity does a home in Broadland use?
- The median home used 2,524 kWh of electricity in 2024, against 2,471 kWh across Great Britain. The mean was higher, 3,494 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 Broadland use?
- The median home with a gas meter used 9,657 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 Broadland?
- At the price cap for 1 October 2026 to 31 December 2026, a home using the Broadland medians would pay about £1,732 a year, standing charges included. Your own bill depends on your own use, which is on your bill or in your supplier’s app.