How much electricity does a home in Sheffield use?

The median home used 2,312 kWh of electricity in 2024, against 2,471 kWh across Great Britain. The mean was higher, 2,956 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 Sheffield use?

The median home with a gas meter used 10,450 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 Sheffield?

At the price cap for 1 October 2026 to 31 December 2026, a home using the Sheffield medians would pay about £1,751 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 Sheffield

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: 2,312 kWh; a year, 6% less than Great Britain
Gas, median home: 10,450 kWh; a year, 6% more than Great Britain
At today’s price cap: £1,751; a year for the median home

The typical home in Sheffield used 2,312 kWh of electricity and 10,450 kWh of gas in 2024. Against the typical home across Great Britain, that is 6% less electricity and 6% more gas.

Of 350 local authority areas in Great Britain, Sheffield comes 286th for electricity use and 101st 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 (2,956 kWh of electricity, 11,826 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 Sheffield medians would pay about £1,751 a year: £817 for electricity and £934 for gas, standing charges included. The same sum for the Great Britain medians comes to £1,745. These use the Yorkshire region’s rates.

Sheffield is in the Yorkshire 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 19% and its gas use has fallen 15%. 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?

Is my electricity use normal? Your yearly use against homes like yours, by property type, heat pump and electric car.
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Areas with similar use

Northumberland2,326 / 10,333 kWh
Falkirk2,280 / 10,521 kWh
Pendle2,296 / 10,600 kWh
Stockton-on-Tees2,321 / 10,247 kWh
Mansfield2,309 / 10,661 kWh

Median electricity / gas, nearest to Sheffield.

Elsewhere in Yorkshire and The Humber

Common questions

How much electricity does a home in Sheffield use?: The median home used 2,312 kWh of electricity in 2024, against 2,471 kWh across Great Britain. The mean was higher, 2,956 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 Sheffield use?: The median home with a gas meter used 10,450 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 Sheffield?: At the price cap for 1 October 2026 to 31 December 2026, a home using the Sheffield medians would pay about £1,751 a year, standing charges included. Your own bill depends on your own use, which is on your bill or in your supplier’s app.