DESNZ · Regional and local authority gas consumption statistics, back years (DESNZ)

Mean domestic gas consumption per meter, 2012 onwards

2023 Final

11,451kWh a year

Mean domestic gas consumption per meter, 2012 onwards was 11,451 kWh a year in 2023, up 1.9% (213) from 11,237 in 2022.

▲ 1.9% · +213 against 2022 (previous period)

DESNZ estimate
2023
published 5 May 2026
Subnational gas consumption, Great Britain, 2005 onwards
row “Great Britain (inc unallocated)”
column “Mean consumption (kWh per meter): Domestic”
cell value 11450.58910049293

2012 to 2023

Published valueProvisional or revisedLatestDotted line: a dated event for context, not a causeShaded bands: governments (see labels)Hover, tap or use arrow keys to read a value; tap again to unpin

The chart as a table

Period	Mean domestic gas consumption per meter, 2012 onwards
2012	14,076 kWh a year
2013	13,680 kWh a year
2014	13,425 kWh a year
2015	13,369 kWh a year
2016	13,331 kWh a year
2017	13,558 kWh a year
2018	13,395 kWh a year
2019	13,516 kWh a year
2020	13,697 kWh a year
2021	12,960 kWh a year
2022	11,237 kWh a year
2023	11,451 kWh a year

What this measures

Weather-corrected gas consumption per domestic meter for every published year before the newest, from the same DESNZ workbook as the modern series. The same statistic carried back to 2012 on current boundaries; earlier sheets use pre-GSS area codes and are not read.

What this doesn’t measure

Households without a gas meter, nor the bill, which also depends on the tariff.

Important caveat

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.

Revision history

No period of this series has been revised since it was first ingested here. Revisions are recorded automatically when a later release publishes a different figure for the same period.

Source

Publisher: DESNZ
Publication: Regional and local authority gas consumption statistics, back years (DESNZ)
Release: 2005-2024 edition, published 5 May 2026
Source file: Subnational_gas_consumption_statistics_2005-2024.xlsx
File SHA-256: 192c5f81f953c9ab6b5c2dc4a3ca5ddccf5e98f53d39c0ce368c3c532b209cd3
Retrieved: 4 September 2026
Sheet: 2023
Table: Subnational gas consumption, Great Britain, 2005 onwards
Row: Great Britain (inc unallocated)
Column: Mean consumption (kWh per meter): Domestic
Cell value: 11450.58910049293
Geography: K03000001
Unit: kWh a year
API: /api/metrics/gas_consumption_domestic_mean_history · /series · /vintages

Government periods

Change during each government, from the level inherited to the last complete period before it left office. Describes the period; does not attribute cause.

Conservative 2019–2024	13,3952018	11,4512023	↓ 14.5%
Conservative 2017–2019	13,3312016	13,3952018	↑ 0.5%
Conservative 2015–2017	13,4252014	13,3312016	↓ 0.7%

Full comparison with chart

Release: 2005-2024 edition · publication page
Last updated: 5 May 2026
Next release expected: Not yet announced (estimated from the usual cadence)