Home energy use

Home energy use in Dumfries and Galloway

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
2,531 kWh
a year, 2% more than Great Britain
Gas, median home
10,235 kWh
a year, 4% more than Great Britain
At today’s price cap
£1,800
a year for the median home

The typical home in Dumfries and Galloway used 2,531 kWh of electricity and 10,235 kWh of gas in 2024. Against the typical home across Great Britain, that is 2% more electricity and 4% more gas.

Of 350 local authority areas in Great Britain, Dumfries and Galloway comes 159th for electricity use and 126th 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 (3,535 kWh of electricity, 11,625 kWh of gas) because a minority of big users pulls an average up.

Only about 59% of homes in Dumfries and Galloway 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 Dumfries and Galloway medians would pay about £1,800 a year: £885 for electricity and £915 for gas, standing charges included. The same sum for the Great Britain medians comes to £1,745. These use the South and Central Scotland region’s rates.

Dumfries and Galloway is in the South and Central Scotland 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 26% and its gas use has fallen 16%. 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
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Gas, median kWh a year, weather-corrected
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How does your home compare?

Areas with similar use

Median electricity / gas, nearest to Dumfries and Galloway.

Elsewhere in Scotland

Common questions

How much electricity does a home in Dumfries and Galloway use?
The median home used 2,531 kWh of electricity in 2024, against 2,471 kWh across Great Britain. The mean was higher, 3,535 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 Dumfries and Galloway use?
The median home with a gas meter used 10,235 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 Dumfries and Galloway?
At the price cap for 1 October 2026 to 31 December 2026, a home using the Dumfries and Galloway medians would pay about £1,800 a year, standing charges included. Your own bill depends on your own use, which is on your bill or in your supplier’s app.

Figures for Dumfries and Galloway (S12000006) from the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero’s electricity and gas consumption statistics, published 18 December 2025, covering 77,411 domestic electricity meters and 45,795 gas meters. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.