Home energy use
Home energy use in Waltham Forest
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
- 2,309 kWh
- a year, 7% less than Great Britain
- Gas, median home
- 9,940 kWh
- a year, about the same as Great Britain
- At today’s price cap
- £1,692
- a year for the median home
The typical home in Waltham Forest used 2,309 kWh of electricity and 9,940 kWh of gas in 2024. Against the typical home across Great Britain, that is 7% less electricity and about the same gas.
Of 350 local authority areas in Great Britain, Waltham Forest comes 289th for electricity use and 166th 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 (2,997 kWh of electricity, 11,296 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 Waltham Forest medians would pay about £1,692 a year: £778 for electricity and £915 for gas, standing charges included. The same sum for the Great Britain medians comes to £1,745. Waltham Forest sits across two electricity regions, so these blend their rates by where its homes are.
Waltham Forest is split between electricity regions: London (about 79% of homes) and East of England (about 21% 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 21% and its gas use has fallen 15%.
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
- Rotherham2,303 / 9,948 kWh
- Doncaster2,321 / 9,875 kWh
- Bolsover2,330 / 9,979 kWh
- Clackmannanshire2,277 / 9,953 kWh
- Burnley2,304 / 9,812 kWh
Median electricity / gas, nearest to Waltham Forest.
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
- Tower Hamlets
- Wandsworth
- Westminster
Common questions
- How much electricity does a home in Waltham Forest use?
- The median home used 2,309 kWh of electricity in 2024, against 2,471 kWh across Great Britain. The mean was higher, 2,997 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 Waltham Forest use?
- The median home with a gas meter used 9,940 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 Waltham Forest?
- At the price cap for 1 October 2026 to 31 December 2026, a home using the Waltham Forest medians would pay about £1,692 a year, standing charges included. Your own bill depends on your own use, which is on your bill or in your supplier’s app.