Home energy use
Home energy use in Tower Hamlets
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
- 2,155 kWh
- a year, 13% less than Great Britain
- Gas, median home
- 7,032 kWh
- a year, 29% less than Great Britain
- At today’s price cap
- £1,413
- a year for the median home
The typical home in Tower Hamlets used 2,155 kWh of electricity and 7,032 kWh of gas in 2024. Against the typical home across Great Britain, that is 13% less electricity and 29% less gas.
Of 350 local authority areas in Great Britain, Tower Hamlets comes 332nd for electricity use and 345th 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 (3,046 kWh of electricity, 8,447 kWh of gas) because a minority of big users pulls an average up.
Only about 53% of homes in Tower Hamlets 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 Tower Hamlets medians would pay about £1,413 a year: £730 for electricity and £683 for gas, standing charges included. The same sum for the Great Britain medians comes to £1,745. These use the London region’s rates.
Tower Hamlets is in the London 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 18% and its gas use has fallen 12%.
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
- Westminster2,135 / 7,399 kWh
- Southwark2,140 / 7,421 kWh
- Hackney2,089 / 7,628 kWh
- Exeter2,269 / 7,529 kWh
- Plymouth2,325 / 6,715 kWh
Median electricity / gas, nearest to Tower Hamlets.
Elsewhere in London
- Barking and Dagenham
- Barnet
- Bexley
- Brent
- Bromley
- Camden
- City of London
- Croydon
- Ealing
- Enfield
- Greenwich
- Hackney
- Hammersmith and Fulham
- Haringey
- Harrow
- Havering
- Hillingdon
- Hounslow
- Islington
- Kensington and Chelsea
- Kingston upon Thames
- Lambeth
- Lewisham
- Merton
- Newham
- Redbridge
- Richmond upon Thames
- Southwark
- Sutton
- Waltham Forest
- Wandsworth
- Westminster
Common questions
- How much electricity does a home in Tower Hamlets use?
- The median home used 2,155 kWh of electricity in 2024, against 2,471 kWh across Great Britain. The mean was higher, 3,046 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 Tower Hamlets use?
- The median home with a gas meter used 7,032 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 Tower Hamlets?
- At the price cap for 1 October 2026 to 31 December 2026, a home using the Tower Hamlets medians would pay about £1,413 a year, standing charges included. Your own bill depends on your own use, which is on your bill or in your supplier’s app.