Home energy use
Home energy use in Epsom and Ewell
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
- 2,857 kWh
- a year, 16% more than Great Britain
- Gas, median home
- 12,812 kWh
- a year, 30% more than Great Britain
- At today’s price cap
- £2,097
- a year for the median home
The typical home in Epsom and Ewell used 2,857 kWh of electricity and 12,812 kWh of gas in 2024. Against the typical home across Great Britain, that is 16% more electricity and 30% more gas.
Of 350 local authority areas in Great Britain, Epsom and Ewell comes 33rd for electricity use and 8th 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 (3,694 kWh of electricity, 14,270 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 Epsom and Ewell medians would pay about £2,097 a year: £959 for electricity and £1,138 for gas, standing charges included. The same sum for the Great Britain medians comes to £1,745. These use the South East England region’s rates.
Epsom and Ewell is in the South East 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 20% 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.
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
- St Albans2,884 / 12,782 kWh
- Three Rivers2,940 / 12,473 kWh
- Brentwood2,905 / 12,340 kWh
- Hart2,943 / 12,224 kWh
- Waverley3,021 / 12,512 kWh
Median electricity / gas, nearest to Epsom and Ewell.
Elsewhere in South East
- Adur
- Arun
- Ashford
- Basingstoke and Deane
- Bracknell Forest
- Brighton and Hove
- Buckinghamshire
- Canterbury
- Cherwell
- Chichester
- Crawley
- Dartford
- Dover
- East Hampshire
- Eastbourne
- Eastleigh
- Elmbridge
- Fareham
- Folkestone and Hythe
- Gosport
- Gravesham
- Guildford
- Hart
- Hastings
- Havant
- Horsham
- Isle of Wight
- Lewes
- Maidstone
- Medway
- Mid Sussex
- Milton Keynes
- Mole Valley
- New Forest
- Oxford
- Portsmouth
- Reading
- Reigate and Banstead
- Rother
- Runnymede
- Rushmoor
- Sevenoaks
- Slough
- South Oxfordshire
- Southampton
- Spelthorne
- Surrey Heath
- Swale
- Tandridge
- Test Valley
- Thanet
- Tonbridge and Malling
- Tunbridge Wells
- Vale of White Horse
- Waverley
- Wealden
- West Berkshire
- West Oxfordshire
- Winchester
- Windsor and Maidenhead
- Woking
- Wokingham
- Worthing
Common questions
- How much electricity does a home in Epsom and Ewell use?
- The median home used 2,857 kWh of electricity in 2024, against 2,471 kWh across Great Britain. The mean was higher, 3,694 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 Epsom and Ewell use?
- The median home with a gas meter used 12,812 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 Epsom and Ewell?
- At the price cap for 1 October 2026 to 31 December 2026, a home using the Epsom and Ewell medians would pay about £2,097 a year, standing charges included. Your own bill depends on your own use, which is on your bill or in your supplier’s app.