How much electricity does a home in Mid Devon use?

The median home used 2,800 kWh of electricity in 2024, against 2,471 kWh across Great Britain. The mean was higher, 3,954 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 Mid Devon use?

The median home with a gas meter used 7,643 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 Mid Devon?

At the price cap for 1 October 2026 to 31 December 2026, a home using the Mid Devon medians would pay about £1,675 a year, standing charges included. Your own bill depends on your own use, which is on your bill or in your supplier’s app.

Home energy use

Home energy use in Mid Devon

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.

Verified: 23 October 2026 from DESNZ subnational consumption statistics

Where these figures come from

Electricity, median home: 2,800 kWh; a year, 13% more than Great Britain
Gas, median home: 7,643 kWh; a year, 22% less than Great Britain
At today’s price cap: £1,675; a year for the median home

The typical home in Mid Devon used 2,800 kWh of electricity and 7,643 kWh of gas in 2024. Against the typical home across Great Britain, that is 13% more electricity and 22% less gas.

Of 350 local authority areas in Great Britain, Mid Devon comes 45th for electricity use and 337th 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 (3,954 kWh of electricity, 9,040 kWh of gas) because a minority of big users pulls an average up.

Only about 61% of homes in Mid Devon 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.

What it costs

At the price cap for 1 October 2026 to 31 December 2026, a home using exactly the Mid Devon medians would pay about £1,675 a year: £947 for electricity and £728 for gas, standing charges included. The same sum for the Great Britain medians comes to £1,745. These use the South West England region’s rates.

Mid Devon is in the South West 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 23% and its gas use has fallen 18%. The biggest drop came in 2022, the year of the energy price crisis, and use has stayed close to that lower level since.

Electricity, median kWh a year

Gas, median kWh a year, weather-corrected

How does your home compare?

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Areas with similar use

Torridge2,702 / 7,422 kWh
South Hams2,706 / 7,932 kWh
Isle of Anglesey2,688 / 8,121 kWh
West Devon2,777 / 8,290 kWh
Cornwall2,911 / 7,102 kWh

Median electricity / gas, nearest to Mid Devon.

Elsewhere in South West

Common questions

How much electricity does a home in Mid Devon use?: The median home used 2,800 kWh of electricity in 2024, against 2,471 kWh across Great Britain. The mean was higher, 3,954 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 Mid Devon use?: The median home with a gas meter used 7,643 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 Mid Devon?: At the price cap for 1 October 2026 to 31 December 2026, a home using the Mid Devon medians would pay about £1,675 a year, standing charges included. Your own bill depends on your own use, which is on your bill or in your supplier’s app.