How much electricity does a home in St Albans use?

The median home used 2,884 kWh of electricity in 2024, against 2,471 kWh across Great Britain. The mean was higher, 3,857 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 St Albans use?

The median home with a gas meter used 12,782 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 St Albans?

At the price cap for 1 October 2026 to 31 December 2026, a home using the St Albans medians would pay about £2,075 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 St Albans

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: 2,884 kWh; a year, 17% more than Great Britain
Gas, median home: 12,782 kWh; a year, 30% more than Great Britain
At today’s price cap: £2,075; a year for the median home

The typical home in St Albans used 2,884 kWh of electricity and 12,782 kWh of gas in 2024. Against the typical home across Great Britain, that is 17% more electricity and 30% more gas.

Of 350 local authority areas in Great Britain, St Albans comes 30th for electricity use and 9th 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 (3,857 kWh of electricity, 14,409 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 St Albans medians would pay about £2,075 a year: £957 for electricity and £1,118 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.

St Albans 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 19% and its gas use has fallen 14%.

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.
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

Epsom and Ewell2,857 / 12,812 kWh
Three Rivers2,940 / 12,473 kWh
Brentwood2,905 / 12,340 kWh
Hart2,943 / 12,224 kWh
Waverley3,021 / 12,512 kWh

Median electricity / gas, nearest to St Albans.

Elsewhere in East of England

Common questions

How much electricity does a home in St Albans use?: The median home used 2,884 kWh of electricity in 2024, against 2,471 kWh across Great Britain. The mean was higher, 3,857 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 St Albans use?: The median home with a gas meter used 12,782 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 St Albans?: At the price cap for 1 October 2026 to 31 December 2026, a home using the St Albans medians would pay about £2,075 a year, standing charges included. Your own bill depends on your own use, which is on your bill or in your supplier’s app.