Energy · DESNZ · Latest published: 2024

Mean domestic gas use per meter by local authority, ranked

Every area with a published figure, in order of gas use per meter, kwh a year, highest first. Equal figures share a rank and are printed as ties; the order within a tie is alphabetical and means nothing.

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#	Area	kWh	UK percentile
1	Merthyr Tydfil W06000024	11,801	72
2	Blaenau Gwent W06000019	11,547	62
3	Rhondda Cynon Taf W06000016	11,027	46
4	Caerphilly W06000018	10,984	45
5	Monmouthshire W06000021	10,757	36
6	Swansea W06000011	10,686	33
7	Bridgend W06000013	10,540	27
8	Cardiff W06000015	10,534	26
9	Vale of Glamorgan W06000014	10,451	24
10	Carmarthenshire W06000010	10,405	23
11	Powys W06000023	10,343	21
12	Neath Port Talbot W06000012	10,336	20
13	Ceredigion W06000008	10,247	19
14	Flintshire W06000005	10,192	18
15	Newport W06000022	10,173	17
16	Torfaen W06000020	10,168	16
17	Denbighshire W06000004	10,167	16
18	Conwy W06000003	10,130	14
19	Wrexham W06000006	10,122	14
20	Gwynedd W06000002	9,871	9
21	Pembrokeshire W06000009	9,714	7
22	Isle of Anglesey W06000001	9,440	4

How this ranking is made

Gas use per meter, kWh a year: the published figure for the area, unchanged.. Mean annual gas consumption per domestic meter by local authority, from DESNZ's sub-national gas consumption statistics. Higher where homes are larger, older or colder; areas off the gas grid have few meters and their mean covers only the homes that have one.

Source: DESNZ: Regional and local authority gas consumption statistics · Sub-national gas consumption statistics, 2005 to 2024 (May 2026 update), released 2026-05-05. Boundaries: 2025-05 BGC v2 LAD_MAY_2025_UK_BGC_V2. Percentiles are calculated across the whole UK, so they do not change when the table is filtered to one nation. A ranking compares areas of very different sizes and populations; the figure is the publisher’s own, and its rank is Civometry’s ordering of those published figures.

Merthyr Tydfil has the highest gas use per meter, kwh a year of 22 Wales local authorities with a published figure, at 11,801 (Latest published: 2024). Source: DESNZ: Regional and local authority gas consumption statistics.

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