Home energy use
Home energy use in South Ayrshire
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
- 2,251 kWh
- a year, 9% less than Great Britain
- Gas, median home
- 10,257 kWh
- a year, 4% more than Great Britain
- At today’s price cap
- £1,728
- a year for the median home
The typical home in South Ayrshire used 2,251 kWh of electricity and 10,257 kWh of gas in 2024. Against the typical home across Great Britain, that is 9% less electricity and 4% more gas.
Of 350 local authority areas in Great Britain, South Ayrshire comes 314th for electricity use and 122nd 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 (2,984 kWh of electricity, 11,899 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 South Ayrshire medians would pay about £1,728 a year: £812 for electricity and £916 for gas, standing charges included. The same sum for the Great Britain medians comes to £1,745. These use the South and Central Scotland region’s rates.
South Ayrshire is in the South and Central Scotland 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 27% and its gas use has fallen 19%. 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 Home Energy Scotland’s heat pump grant and loan.
Areas with similar use
- Darlington2,266 / 10,325 kWh
- Rhondda Cynon Taf2,284 / 10,136 kWh
- Fife2,245 / 10,454 kWh
- Stockton-on-Tees2,321 / 10,247 kWh
- Falkirk2,280 / 10,521 kWh
Median electricity / gas, nearest to South Ayrshire.
Elsewhere in Scotland
- Aberdeen City
- Aberdeenshire
- Angus
- Argyll and Bute
- City of Edinburgh
- Clackmannanshire
- Dumfries and Galloway
- Dundee City
- East Ayrshire
- East Dunbartonshire
- East Lothian
- East Renfrewshire
- Falkirk
- Fife
- Glasgow City
- Highland
- Inverclyde
- Midlothian
- Moray
- Na h-Eileanan Siar
- North Ayrshire
- North Lanarkshire
- Orkney Islands
- Perth and Kinross
- Renfrewshire
- Scottish Borders
- Shetland Islands
- South Lanarkshire
- Stirling
- West Dunbartonshire
- West Lothian
Common questions
- How much electricity does a home in South Ayrshire use?
- The median home used 2,251 kWh of electricity in 2024, against 2,471 kWh across Great Britain. The mean was higher, 2,984 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 South Ayrshire use?
- The median home with a gas meter used 10,257 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 South Ayrshire?
- At the price cap for 1 October 2026 to 31 December 2026, a home using the South Ayrshire medians would pay about £1,728 a year, standing charges included. Your own bill depends on your own use, which is on your bill or in your supplier’s app.