Home energy use
Home energy use in North Yorkshire
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
- 2,525 kWh
- a year, 2% more than Great Britain
- Gas, median home
- 10,219 kWh
- a year, 4% more than Great Britain
- At today’s price cap
- £1,786
- a year for the median home
The typical home in North Yorkshire used 2,525 kWh of electricity and 10,219 kWh of gas in 2024. Against the typical home across Great Britain, that is 2% more electricity and 4% more gas.
Of 350 local authority areas in Great Britain, North Yorkshire comes 162nd for electricity use and 130th 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 (3,626 kWh of electricity, 11,858 kWh of gas) because a minority of big users pulls an average up.
Only about 75% of homes in North Yorkshire 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 North Yorkshire medians would pay about £1,786 a year: £869 for electricity and £918 for gas, standing charges included. The same sum for the Great Britain medians comes to £1,745. North Yorkshire sits across two electricity regions, so these blend their rates by where its homes are.
North Yorkshire is split between electricity regions: North East England (about 76% of homes) and Yorkshire (about 24% 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 23% 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
- Dumfries and Galloway2,531 / 10,235 kWh
- Stafford2,517 / 10,258 kWh
- Fylde2,539 / 10,192 kWh
- Cannock Chase2,530 / 10,151 kWh
- Newark and Sherwood2,524 / 10,121 kWh
Median electricity / gas, nearest to North Yorkshire.
Common questions
- How much electricity does a home in North Yorkshire use?
- The median home used 2,525 kWh of electricity in 2024, against 2,471 kWh across Great Britain. The mean was higher, 3,626 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 North Yorkshire use?
- The median home with a gas meter used 10,219 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 North Yorkshire?
- At the price cap for 1 October 2026 to 31 December 2026, a home using the North Yorkshire medians would pay about £1,786 a year, standing charges included. Your own bill depends on your own use, which is on your bill or in your supplier’s app.