Home energy use
Home energy use in East Lindsey
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
- 2,603 kWh
- a year, 5% more than Great Britain
- Gas, median home
- 9,193 kWh
- a year, 7% less than Great Britain
- At today’s price cap
- £1,690
- a year for the median home
The typical home in East Lindsey used 2,603 kWh of electricity and 9,193 kWh of gas in 2024. Against the typical home across Great Britain, that is 5% more electricity and 7% less gas.
Of 350 local authority areas in Great Britain, East Lindsey comes 114th for electricity use and 258th 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 (3,761 kWh of electricity, 10,654 kWh of gas) because a minority of big users pulls an average up.
Only about 62% of homes in East Lindsey 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.
28% of electricity meters here are on Economy 7 or a similar day and night meter, against 12% across Great Britain. That usually means electric storage heaters or a hot water cylinder heated overnight, and it is worth checking your night rate is the one you are using most.
What it costs
At the price cap for 1 October 2026 to 31 December 2026, a home using exactly the East Lindsey medians would pay about £1,690 a year: £861 for electricity and £829 for gas, standing charges included. The same sum for the Great Britain medians comes to £1,745. East Lindsey sits across two electricity regions, so these blend their rates by where its homes are.
East Lindsey is split between electricity regions: East Midlands (about 70% of homes) and Yorkshire (about 30% 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 20%. 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
- Salford2,614 / 9,257 kWh
- Manchester2,606 / 9,271 kWh
- Shropshire2,619 / 9,099 kWh
- North Norfolk2,591 / 9,064 kWh
- Swale2,593 / 9,050 kWh
Median electricity / gas, nearest to East Lindsey.
Elsewhere in East Midlands
- Amber Valley
- Ashfield
- Bassetlaw
- Blaby
- Bolsover
- Boston
- Broxtowe
- Charnwood
- Chesterfield
- Derby
- Derbyshire Dales
- Erewash
- Gedling
- Harborough
- High Peak
- Hinckley and Bosworth
- Leicester
- Lincoln
- Mansfield
- Melton
- Newark and Sherwood
- North East Derbyshire
- North Kesteven
- North Northamptonshire
- North West Leicestershire
- Nottingham
- Oadby and Wigston
- Rushcliffe
- Rutland
- South Derbyshire
- South Holland
- South Kesteven
- West Lindsey
- West Northamptonshire
Common questions
- How much electricity does a home in East Lindsey use?
- The median home used 2,603 kWh of electricity in 2024, against 2,471 kWh across Great Britain. The mean was higher, 3,761 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 Lindsey use?
- The median home with a gas meter used 9,193 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 Lindsey?
- At the price cap for 1 October 2026 to 31 December 2026, a home using the East Lindsey medians would pay about £1,690 a year, standing charges included. Your own bill depends on your own use, which is on your bill or in your supplier’s app.