Mean domestic gas use per meter by local authority

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Lowest areas

Ranked by gas use per meter, kwh a year, highest first; ties in alphabetical order. Areas without a value are not ranked.

What this map shows

317 of 317 local authority areas have a current value for mean domestic gas use per meter (gas use per meter, kwh a year), Latest published: 2024. Classes are quantiles of the areas with data, computed on the server, so the same link always gives the same legend.

The published mean over all domestic gas meters in the area.

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Source and method

Data

Regional and local authority gas consumption statistics (DESNZ) (DESNZ).

Denominator

None (a published mean per area). Percentiles rank the areas with a value for the newest year. Regional and local authority gas consumption statistics (DESNZ).

Boundaries

ONS Open Geography Portal generalised boundaries, Open Government Licence v3.0 (2025-05 BGC v2 LAD_MAY_2025_UK_BGC_V2).

Basemap

Ordnance Survey Maps API (Light), used under the OS Data Hub terms.

Formula

the published figure for the area, unchanged

Stale areas

An area whose newest published value is for an earlier period than the newest any area carries is shown as no current data, with both periods named. Nothing is carried forward.

Method

Methodology

What this does not measure

Households without a gas meter, which are about one in seven in Great Britain and far more in some rural and island areas; nor the bill, which also depends on the tariff.

DESNZ sub-national consumption statistics count meters, not households, and allocate each meter to a local authority by its postcode. Gas figures are weather-corrected and cover a gas year (2024 is mid-May 2024 to mid-May 2025); electricity figures are not weather-corrected and cover February to January. Means are per meter across all domestic meters in the area, so they are raised by large, electrically heated and multi-meter properties and say nothing about homes with no gas supply. Scottish councils are in the source but outside the site's geography registry, so only Great Britain, nation, region and English and Welsh authority rows are held.

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