How much electricity does a home in Ealing use?

The median home used 2,373 kWh of electricity in 2024, against 2,471 kWh across Great Britain. The mean was higher, 3,212 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 Ealing use?

The median home with a gas meter used 10,784 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 Ealing?

At the price cap for 1 October 2026 to 31 December 2026, a home using the Ealing medians would pay about £1,790 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 Ealing

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: 2,373 kWh; a year, 4% less than Great Britain
Gas, median home: 10,784 kWh; a year, 9% more than Great Britain
At today’s price cap: £1,790; a year for the median home

The typical home in Ealing used 2,373 kWh of electricity and 10,784 kWh of gas in 2024. Against the typical home across Great Britain, that is 4% less electricity and 9% more gas.

Of 350 local authority areas in Great Britain, Ealing comes 263rd for electricity use and 67th 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 (3,212 kWh of electricity, 12,499 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 Ealing medians would pay about £1,790 a year: £803 for electricity and £987 for gas, standing charges included. The same sum for the Great Britain medians comes to £1,745. These use the Southern England region’s rates.

Ealing is in the Southern 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 21% and its gas use has fallen 14%.

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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Grant checker Including the Boiler Upgrade Scheme, which covers England.

Areas with similar use

Kirklees2,381 / 10,854 kWh
West Lothian2,382 / 10,908 kWh
Blackburn with Darwen2,409 / 10,768 kWh
South Lanarkshire2,359 / 10,927 kWh
Calderdale2,418 / 10,655 kWh

Median electricity / gas, nearest to Ealing.

Elsewhere in London

Common questions

How much electricity does a home in Ealing use?: The median home used 2,373 kWh of electricity in 2024, against 2,471 kWh across Great Britain. The mean was higher, 3,212 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 Ealing use?: The median home with a gas meter used 10,784 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 Ealing?: At the price cap for 1 October 2026 to 31 December 2026, a home using the Ealing medians would pay about £1,790 a year, standing charges included. Your own bill depends on your own use, which is on your bill or in your supplier’s app.