Home energy use
Home energy use in Wyre 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
- 2,506 kWh
- a year, about the same as Great Britain
- Gas, median home
- 9,344 kWh
- a year, 5% less than Great Britain
- At today’s price cap
- £1,697
- a year for the median home
The typical home in Wyre Forest used 2,506 kWh of electricity and 9,344 kWh of gas in 2024. Against the typical home across Great Britain, that is about the same electricity and 5% less gas.
Of 350 local authority areas in Great Britain, Wyre Forest comes 182nd for electricity use and 244th 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 (3,319 kWh of electricity, 10,546 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 Wyre Forest medians would pay about £1,697 a year: £850 for electricity and £847 for gas, standing charges included. The same sum for the Great Britain medians comes to £1,745. These use the West Midlands region’s rates.
Wyre Forest is in the West Midlands 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 25% and its gas use has fallen 17%. 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 the Boiler Upgrade Scheme, which covers England.
Areas with similar use
- Flintshire2,494 / 9,289 kWh
- Redditch2,490 / 9,287 kWh
- Crawley2,511 / 9,450 kWh
- Swindon2,493 / 9,442 kWh
- Lewes2,545 / 9,368 kWh
Median electricity / gas, nearest to Wyre Forest.
Elsewhere in West Midlands
- Birmingham
- Bromsgrove
- Cannock Chase
- Coventry
- Dudley
- East Staffordshire
- Herefordshire
- Lichfield
- Malvern Hills
- Newcastle-under-Lyme
- North Warwickshire
- Nuneaton and Bedworth
- Redditch
- Rugby
- Sandwell
- Shropshire
- Solihull
- South Staffordshire
- Stafford
- Staffordshire Moorlands
- Stoke-on-Trent
- Stratford-on-Avon
- Tamworth
- Telford and Wrekin
- Walsall
- Warwick
- Wolverhampton
- Worcester
- Wychavon
Common questions
- How much electricity does a home in Wyre Forest use?
- The median home used 2,506 kWh of electricity in 2024, against 2,471 kWh across Great Britain. The mean was higher, 3,319 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 Wyre Forest use?
- The median home with a gas meter used 9,344 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 Wyre Forest?
- At the price cap for 1 October 2026 to 31 December 2026, a home using the Wyre Forest medians would pay about £1,697 a year, standing charges included. Your own bill depends on your own use, which is on your bill or in your supplier’s app.