Home energy use
Home energy use in East Dunbartonshire
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
- 2,520 kWh
- a year, 2% more than Great Britain
- Gas, median home
- 12,975 kWh
- a year, 32% more than Great Britain
- At today’s price cap
- £2,012
- a year for the median home
The typical home in East Dunbartonshire used 2,520 kWh of electricity and 12,975 kWh of gas in 2024. Against the typical home across Great Britain, that is 2% more electricity and 32% more gas.
Of 350 local authority areas in Great Britain, East Dunbartonshire comes 169th for electricity use and 5th 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 (3,157 kWh of electricity, 14,582 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 East Dunbartonshire medians would pay about £2,012 a year: £882 for electricity and £1,130 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.
East Dunbartonshire 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 25% and its gas use has fallen 17%. 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 Home Energy Scotland’s heat pump grant and loan.
Areas with similar use
- East Renfrewshire2,603 / 13,191 kWh
- Barnet2,620 / 12,471 kWh
- Harrow2,586 / 13,715 kWh
- Redbridge2,720 / 12,222 kWh
- Bromley2,654 / 11,960 kWh
Median electricity / gas, nearest to East Dunbartonshire.
Elsewhere in Scotland
- Aberdeen City
- Aberdeenshire
- Angus
- Argyll and Bute
- City of Edinburgh
- Clackmannanshire
- Dumfries and Galloway
- Dundee City
- East Ayrshire
- East Lothian
- East Renfrewshire
- Falkirk
- Fife
- Glasgow City
- Highland
- Inverclyde
- Midlothian
- Moray
- Na h-Eileanan Siar
- North Ayrshire
- North Lanarkshire
- Orkney Islands
- Perth and Kinross
- Renfrewshire
- Scottish Borders
- Shetland Islands
- South Ayrshire
- South Lanarkshire
- Stirling
- West Dunbartonshire
- West Lothian
Common questions
- How much electricity does a home in East Dunbartonshire use?
- The median home used 2,520 kWh of electricity in 2024, against 2,471 kWh across Great Britain. The mean was higher, 3,157 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 East Dunbartonshire use?
- The median home with a gas meter used 12,975 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 East Dunbartonshire?
- At the price cap for 1 October 2026 to 31 December 2026, a home using the East Dunbartonshire medians would pay about £2,012 a year, standing charges included. Your own bill depends on your own use, which is on your bill or in your supplier’s app.