Home energy use
Home energy use in Harlow
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
- 2,432 kWh
- a year, 2% less than Great Britain
- Gas, median home
- 9,138 kWh
- a year, 7% less than Great Britain
- At today’s price cap
- £1,666
- a year for the median home
The typical home in Harlow used 2,432 kWh of electricity and 9,138 kWh of gas in 2024. Against the typical home across Great Britain, that is 2% less electricity and 7% less gas.
Of 350 local authority areas in Great Britain, Harlow comes 224th for electricity use and 268th 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 (3,081 kWh of electricity, 10,063 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 Harlow medians would pay about £1,666 a year: £836 for electricity and £830 for gas, standing charges included. The same sum for the Great Britain medians comes to £1,745. These use the East of England region’s rates.
Harlow is in the East of 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 15%.
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
- Cardiff2,421 / 9,130 kWh
- East Suffolk2,458 / 9,184 kWh
- Telford and Wrekin2,404 / 9,101 kWh
- Ipswich2,411 / 9,039 kWh
- Arun2,468 / 9,207 kWh
Median electricity / gas, nearest to Harlow.
Elsewhere in East of England
- Babergh
- Basildon
- Bedford
- Braintree
- Breckland
- Brentwood
- Broadland
- Broxbourne
- Cambridge
- Castle Point
- Central Bedfordshire
- Chelmsford
- Colchester
- Dacorum
- East Cambridgeshire
- East Hertfordshire
- East Suffolk
- Epping Forest
- Fenland
- Great Yarmouth
- Hertsmere
- Huntingdonshire
- Ipswich
- King's Lynn and West Norfolk
- Luton
- Maldon
- Mid Suffolk
- North Hertfordshire
- North Norfolk
- Norwich
- Peterborough
- Rochford
- South Cambridgeshire
- South Norfolk
- Southend-on-Sea
- St Albans
- Stevenage
- Tendring
- Three Rivers
- Thurrock
- Uttlesford
- Watford
- Welwyn Hatfield
- West Suffolk
Common questions
- How much electricity does a home in Harlow use?
- The median home used 2,432 kWh of electricity in 2024, against 2,471 kWh across Great Britain. The mean was higher, 3,081 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 Harlow use?
- The median home with a gas meter used 9,138 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 Harlow?
- At the price cap for 1 October 2026 to 31 December 2026, a home using the Harlow medians would pay about £1,666 a year, standing charges included. Your own bill depends on your own use, which is on your bill or in your supplier’s app.