Home energy use
Home energy use in Cheshire East
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
- 2,606 kWh
- a year, 5% more than Great Britain
- Gas, median home
- 10,437 kWh
- a year, 6% more than Great Britain
- At today’s price cap
- £1,859
- a year for the median home
The typical home in Cheshire East used 2,606 kWh of electricity and 10,437 kWh of gas in 2024. Against the typical home across Great Britain, that is 5% more electricity and 6% more gas.
Of 350 local authority areas in Great Britain, Cheshire East comes 112th for electricity use and 102nd 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 (3,553 kWh of electricity, 12,095 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 Cheshire East medians would pay about £1,859 a year: £926 for electricity and £933 for gas, standing charges included. The same sum for the Great Britain medians comes to £1,745. Cheshire East sits across three electricity regions, so these blend their rates by where its homes are.
Cheshire East is split between electricity regions: Merseyside and North Wales (about 59% of homes), North West England (about 35% of homes) and West Midlands (about 7% 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
- North West Leicestershire2,599 / 10,426 kWh
- Ribble Valley2,601 / 10,507 kWh
- Walsall2,585 / 10,470 kWh
- Rugby2,586 / 10,251 kWh
- Lichfield2,632 / 10,630 kWh
Median electricity / gas, nearest to Cheshire East.
Elsewhere in North West
- Blackburn with Darwen
- Blackpool
- Bolton
- Burnley
- Bury
- Cheshire West and Chester
- Chorley
- Cumberland
- Fylde
- Halton
- Hyndburn
- Knowsley
- Lancaster
- Liverpool
- Manchester
- Oldham
- Pendle
- Preston
- Ribble Valley
- Rochdale
- Rossendale
- Salford
- Sefton
- South Ribble
- St. Helens
- Stockport
- Tameside
- Trafford
- Warrington
- West Lancashire
- Westmorland and Furness
- Wigan
- Wirral
- Wyre
Common questions
- How much electricity does a home in Cheshire East use?
- The median home used 2,606 kWh of electricity in 2024, against 2,471 kWh across Great Britain. The mean was higher, 3,553 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 Cheshire East use?
- The median home with a gas meter used 10,437 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 Cheshire East?
- At the price cap for 1 October 2026 to 31 December 2026, a home using the Cheshire East medians would pay about £1,859 a year, standing charges included. Your own bill depends on your own use, which is on your bill or in your supplier’s app.