Home energy use
Home energy use in Lichfield
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
- 2,632 kWh
- a year, 7% more than Great Britain
- Gas, median home
- 10,630 kWh
- a year, 8% more than Great Britain
- At today’s price cap
- £1,827
- a year for the median home
The typical home in Lichfield used 2,632 kWh of electricity and 10,630 kWh of gas in 2024. Against the typical home across Great Britain, that is 7% more electricity and 8% more gas.
Of 350 local authority areas in Great Britain, Lichfield comes 104th for electricity use and 82nd 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 (3,542 kWh of electricity, 12,193 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 Lichfield medians would pay about £1,827 a year: £880 for electricity and £947 for gas, standing charges included. The same sum for the Great Britain medians comes to £1,745. Lichfield sits across two electricity regions, so these blend their rates by where its homes are.
Lichfield is split between electricity regions: West Midlands (about 90% of homes) and East Midlands (about 10% 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 24% 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
- Perth and Kinross2,659 / 10,699 kWh
- Welwyn Hatfield2,657 / 10,712 kWh
- Ribble Valley2,601 / 10,507 kWh
- Cheshire East2,606 / 10,437 kWh
- North West Leicestershire2,599 / 10,426 kWh
Median electricity / gas, nearest to Lichfield.
Elsewhere in West Midlands
- Birmingham
- Bromsgrove
- Cannock Chase
- Coventry
- Dudley
- East Staffordshire
- Herefordshire
- Malvern Hills
- Newcastle-under-Lyme
- North Warwickshire
- Nuneaton and Bedworth
- Redditch
- Rugby
- Sandwell
- Shropshire
- Solihull
- South Staffordshire
- Stafford
- Staffordshire Moorlands
- Stoke-on-Trent
- Stratford-on-Avon
- Tamworth
- Telford and Wrekin
- Walsall
- Warwick
- Wolverhampton
- Worcester
- Wychavon
- Wyre Forest
Common questions
- How much electricity does a home in Lichfield use?
- The median home used 2,632 kWh of electricity in 2024, against 2,471 kWh across Great Britain. The mean was higher, 3,542 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 Lichfield use?
- The median home with a gas meter used 10,630 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 Lichfield?
- At the price cap for 1 October 2026 to 31 December 2026, a home using the Lichfield medians would pay about £1,827 a year, standing charges included. Your own bill depends on your own use, which is on your bill or in your supplier’s app.