Home energy use
Home energy use in West Dunbartonshire
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
- 2,066 kWh
- a year, 16% less than Great Britain
- Gas, median home
- 8,806 kWh
- a year, 11% less than Great Britain
- At today’s price cap
- £1,566
- a year for the median home
The typical home in West Dunbartonshire used 2,066 kWh of electricity and 8,806 kWh of gas in 2024. Against the typical home across Great Britain, that is 16% less electricity and 11% less gas.
Of 350 local authority areas in Great Britain, West Dunbartonshire comes 344th for electricity use and 299th 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 (2,575 kWh of electricity, 9,965 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 West Dunbartonshire medians would pay about £1,566 a year: £764 for electricity and £802 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.
West Dunbartonshire 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 18%. 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
- City of Edinburgh2,104 / 8,598 kWh
- Kensington and Chelsea2,133 / 8,410 kWh
- Kingston upon Hull2,205 / 8,841 kWh
- Hammersmith and Fulham2,059 / 8,243 kWh
- Wandsworth2,206 / 8,917 kWh
Median electricity / gas, nearest to West Dunbartonshire.
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 Ayrshire
- South Lanarkshire
- Stirling
- West Lothian
Common questions
- How much electricity does a home in West Dunbartonshire use?
- The median home used 2,066 kWh of electricity in 2024, against 2,471 kWh across Great Britain. The mean was higher, 2,575 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 West Dunbartonshire use?
- The median home with a gas meter used 8,806 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 West Dunbartonshire?
- At the price cap for 1 October 2026 to 31 December 2026, a home using the West Dunbartonshire medians would pay about £1,566 a year, standing charges included. Your own bill depends on your own use, which is on your bill or in your supplier’s app.