Home energy use
Home energy use in Luton
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
- 2,513 kWh
- a year, 2% more than Great Britain
- Gas, median home
- 11,383 kWh
- a year, 15% more than Great Britain
- At today’s price cap
- £1,865
- a year for the median home
The typical home in Luton used 2,513 kWh of electricity and 11,383 kWh of gas in 2024. Against the typical home across Great Britain, that is 2% more electricity and 15% more gas.
Of 350 local authority areas in Great Britain, Luton comes 176th for electricity use and 32nd 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 (3,309 kWh of electricity, 12,608 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 Luton medians would pay about £1,865 a year: £858 for electricity and £1,007 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.
Luton 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 20% and its gas use has fallen 13%.
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
- Bradford2,450 / 11,464 kWh
- Croydon2,504 / 11,116 kWh
- Oadby and Wigston2,443 / 11,371 kWh
- Stirling2,524 / 11,099 kWh
- Richmond upon Thames2,576 / 11,183 kWh
Median electricity / gas, nearest to Luton.
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
- Harlow
- Hertsmere
- Huntingdonshire
- Ipswich
- King's Lynn and West Norfolk
- 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 Luton use?
- The median home used 2,513 kWh of electricity in 2024, against 2,471 kWh across Great Britain. The mean was higher, 3,309 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 Luton use?
- The median home with a gas meter used 11,383 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 Luton?
- At the price cap for 1 October 2026 to 31 December 2026, a home using the Luton medians would pay about £1,865 a year, standing charges included. Your own bill depends on your own use, which is on your bill or in your supplier’s app.