How much electricity does a home in Dorset use?

The median home used 2,530 kWh of electricity in 2024, against 2,471 kWh across Great Britain. The mean was higher, 3,546 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 Dorset use?

The median home with a gas meter used 8,913 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 Dorset?

At the price cap for 1 October 2026 to 31 December 2026, a home using the Dorset medians would pay about £1,681 a year, standing charges included. Your own bill depends on your own use, which is on your bill or in your supplier’s app.

Home energy use

Home energy use in Dorset

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.

Verified: 23 October 2026 from DESNZ subnational consumption statistics

Where these figures come from

Electricity, median home: 2,530 kWh; a year, 2% more than Great Britain
Gas, median home: 8,913 kWh; a year, 10% less than Great Britain
At today’s price cap: £1,681; a year for the median home

The typical home in Dorset used 2,530 kWh of electricity and 8,913 kWh of gas in 2024. Against the typical home across Great Britain, that is 2% more electricity and 10% less gas.

Of 350 local authority areas in Great Britain, Dorset comes 160th for electricity use and 289th 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 (3,546 kWh of electricity, 10,362 kWh of gas) because a minority of big users pulls an average up.

Only about 76% of homes in Dorset 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.

What it costs

At the price cap for 1 October 2026 to 31 December 2026, a home using exactly the Dorset medians would pay about £1,681 a year: £847 for electricity and £834 for gas, standing charges included. The same sum for the Great Britain medians comes to £1,745. Dorset sits across two electricity regions, so these blend their rates by where its homes are.

Dorset is split between electricity regions: Southern England (about 91% of homes) and South West England (about 9% 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 24% 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.

Electricity, median kWh a year

Gas, median kWh a year, weather-corrected

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.
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Areas with similar use

South Gloucestershire2,550 / 8,883 kWh
Eastleigh2,516 / 9,027 kWh
Denbighshire2,496 / 8,938 kWh
North Somerset2,501 / 8,817 kWh
Havant2,551 / 9,065 kWh

Median electricity / gas, nearest to Dorset.

Elsewhere in South West

Common questions

How much electricity does a home in Dorset use?: The median home used 2,530 kWh of electricity in 2024, against 2,471 kWh across Great Britain. The mean was higher, 3,546 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 Dorset use?: The median home with a gas meter used 8,913 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 Dorset?: At the price cap for 1 October 2026 to 31 December 2026, a home using the Dorset medians would pay about £1,681 a year, standing charges included. Your own bill depends on your own use, which is on your bill or in your supplier’s app.