Average Household Electricity Consumption – 2025

Introduction – Electricity Used By A Home

[Update 1/11/2025: we updated the average household electricity consumption figures using the latest data from EIA from Oct 2024 which is current as of Jan 2025]

Do you know how much electricity your home uses per day, per month or per year? As of October 2024, in the United States, the average household uses 861 kWh of electricity per month, or 10,332 kWh of electricity per year. This means the average household uses 28.4 kWh of electricity every day. Below we present how we computed this and electricity use in other countries.

Between March 2024 and January 2025, average household electricity consumption increased slightly from 10,204 kWh per year to 10,332 kWh per year, reflecting a growth of approximately 1.25%. Monthly and daily averages also saw minor increases, aligning with overall trends in residential energy use driven by seasonal demands and changes in household energy efficiency patterns.

Average Electricity Consumption Per Year, Month and Day

Here we present the updated average consumption for year, month, and day use. We use the US government’s EIA aggregate electricity reports for October 2024 to calculate the annual, monthly, and daily figures. The EIA releases data every three months, annualized over the preceding period. See below for a description of the methods.

Average household electricity consumption per year is 10,332 kWh (kilowatt hours).

Average electricity consumption per month is 861 kWh.

Average electricity consumption per day is 28.4 kWh.

These numbers are for a U.S. residential utility customer, which basically means a household or apartment unit.

Single Household – Instantaneous Usage

The power needs of a house at any instant then is on average 1.2 – 2.3 kilowatts.

[Update: Aggregate figures are rolling updates and new as of October 2024. Statistics for state figures are also updated below .]

Summary Table For Average Household Electricity Use Per Day, Month, And Year

Frequency	Average Household Usage (kWh = kilowatt hours)
Per Year	10,332 kWh
Per Month	861 kWh
Per Day	28.4 kWh
Instantaneous	1-3 kW (kilowatts)

Notes On Calculations And Data Sources

To calculate the annual, monthly, and daily figures, we used the aggregate electricity use by residential customers reported by the EIA on a rolling basis until October 2024, which was 1,485,885,000,000 kWh. We also used the total number of US residential units, which according to estimates using the latest census figures, are 143,786,655.

To get the instantaneous usage, we note that the number of hours in a year is 365 × 24 = 8,760 hours. Then, on average, at any one time, your house is using 10,332 kWh divided by 8,760 hours, which is 1.18 kilowatts. If most of the load is during the day, then we can approximate it to be double at 2.36 kilowatts.

Average Household Electricity Use By State, and Cost Per kWh

For each state, below are the average daily kWh, average monthly kWh and average annual kWh. We also provide the cost of electricity per kWh.

State	Annual Usage per Household (kWh)	Monthly Usage per Household (kWh)	Daily Usage per Household (kWh)	Cost per kWh (Cents)	Average Monthly Bill ($)
Alabama	10515	876	29	15.08	132.1
Alaska	6409	534	18	24.04	128.37
Arizona	11512	959	32	14.53	139.34
Arkansas	10369	864	28	12.73	109.99
California	4947	412	14	31.78	130.93
Colorado	6822	568	19	14.5	82.36
Connecticut	6454	538	18	29.01	156.07
Delaware	8266	689	23	17.43	120.09
District of Columbia	5986	499	16	18.03	89.97
Florida	12814	1068	35	15.45	165.01
Georgia	9843	820	27	13.69	112.26
Hawaii	6417	535	18	42.68	228.34
Idaho	8617	718	24	12.07	86.66
Illinois	6665	555	18	15.75	87.41
Indiana	8653	721	24	15.17	109.38
Iowa	7747	646	21	13.46	86.95
Kansas	8126	677	22	13.45	91.06
Kentucky	9612	801	26	13.17	105.49
Louisiana	13528	1127	37	11.95	134.68
Maine	5516	460	15	29.06	133.68
Maryland	8091	674	22	18.38	123.88
Massachusetts	5639	470	15	28.19	132.49
Michigan	6282	524	17	19.2	100.61
Minnesota	7205	600	20	15.45	92.7
Mississippi	12114	1010	33	13.47	136.05
Missouri	9360	780	26	12.2	95.16
Montana	7790	649	21	12.93	83.92
Nebraska	9035	753	25	11.67	87.88
Nevada	8094	674	22	14.63	98.61
New Hampshire	5929	494	16	25.49	125.92
New Jersey	6012	501	16	17.46	87.47
New Mexico	6628	552	18	14.12	77.94
New York	5889	491	16	21.99	107.97
North Carolina	8941	745	24	14.4	107.28
North Dakota	10153	846	28	11.71	99.07
Ohio	8176	681	22	15.89	108.21
Oklahoma	10058	838	28	13.04	109.28
Oregon	8816	735	24	13.29	97.68
Pennsylvania	7658	638	21	18.44	117.65
Rhode Island	5670	472	16	30.08	141.98
South Carolina	9474	790	26	14	110.6
South Dakota	9437	786	26	13.05	102.57
Tennessee	11121	927	30	12.49	115.78
Texas	12672	1056	35	14.89	157.24
Utah	7400	617	20	11.23	69.29
Vermont	5920	493	16	22.11	109
Virginia	9056	755	25	14.16	106.91
Washington	9403	784	26	11.33	88.83
West Virginia	9121	760	25	15.05	114.38
Wisconsin	6645	554	18	17.14	94.96
Wyoming	8202	684	22	12.49	85.43

Average Household Electricity Use Around The World – 2023

About 90% of people in the world have access to electricity.  This figure increased from 2010-2020 but then dropped since the COVID pandemic.  But despite the fact more people are getting access to electricity we use very different amounts of it.

Using data from the World Energy Council we can compare how much electricity the average electrified household uses in different countries.

We also present data from IEA.org updated for 2023. IEA has since moved the data away from open access, requiring a sign-up so we elected not to update this figure. This is in tabular form instead of a chart so you can copy and paste it. Note we’ve ordered it as the chart so its ranked in “kWh per household”. What should stand out is that the numbers haven’t moved too much. Canada and United States really stand out. We included also the number of households. You can see that Sweden is a much smaller country but uses more electricity than Australia or France which are larger. Notably Sweden’s electricity is very low in carbon because of hydro and nuclear.

Country	Number of households	kWh per Household (annual)
Canada	15,618,491	11,305
US	132,736,055	11,156
Sweden	4,776,239	8,914
New Zealand	1,906,474	6,754
Australia	10,220,186	5,919
France	30,217,950	5,344
Hong Kong	2,646,107	4,900
Ireland	1,799,221	4,857
Japan	55,704,949	4,749
Malaysia	7,176,812	4,456
Spain	17,565,288	4,169
UK	29,486,179	3,658
Netherlands	7,874,258	3,130
Germany	40,624,971	3,127
Russia	56,771,478	2,879
Italy	25,020,120	2,646
South Africa	17,733,119	2,614
China	522,689,264	2,180
Indonesia	69,855,344	1,720
Philippines	25,893,157	1,324
India	299,727,860	1,005

Across the countries we chose to compare household electricity use varies enormously.  The average American or Canadian household in 2010 used about twenty times more than the typical Nigerian household, and two to three times more than a typical European home.

Comparing The US, France, UK and China

In the US typical household power consumption is about 10,178 kWh each year, in France it is 6,400 kWh, in the UK it is 4,600 kWh and in China around 1,300 kWh.  The global average electricity consumption for households with electricity was roughly 3,500 kWh in 2010.

There are numerous things that drive these differences, including wealth, physical house size, appliance standards, electricity prices and access to alternative cooking, heating and cooling fuels.

Factors That Explain Why Consumption In China Is Low And India Is Even Lower

Perhaps the most surprising thing in this chart is that the global average is as high as 3,500 kWh/year, given that the figures for India and China are so low.  Two things explain this, household size and electrification rates.

In China about 99% of people have electricity and average household size is around 3.  In India these are 66% and 5 respectively  and in Nigeria 50% and 5.  Average household size in most wealthy countries is closer to 2.5 people.  As a result the distribution of electrified households is more skewed towards wealthy countries than population in general.

Global Home Electricity Use Per Person

By taking residential electricity use and dividing it by population we can look at how much electricity the average person uses at home in each country.  Unlike in our previous graph this chart takes in to account all the people in each country, so for places where electricity access is not universal the figures are lower.

Although the graphs look very similar there are some striking differences.

Americans Use 5X More Power Than Global Average

Each American uses about 4,500 kWh per year in their home (don’t forget that the figures at the beginning of the article are for a “household” whereas this is for an individual).  This is about six times that of the global average per capita, or more than five times the average for those who have electricity access.

The variation between developed countries is also quite stark.  While the US and Canada are up around 4,500 kWh per person the UK and Germany are below 2,000 kWh.  In Brazil, Mexico and China per person use is just 500 kWh, but growth is very different.  In Brazil residential use per person has been stable over the last 20 years, whereas in Mexico it is up 50% and in China it has increased 600%.

Where Is Yours Like?

Our household electricity use has been 2,000 kWh each of the last few years, which means it is about 700 kWh per person.  We benefit from not using electricity for heating or cooling, although our electric oven is a big source of demand.

That makes us a Brazilian family, but global people 😉

How do you stack up?

Data Sources

Instructions:

For the average household electricity use across the US we use the rolling updated 12 months electricity use published by the EIA, which means the data is very fresh, only about 3 months behind. Therefore, if its July right now, the data shows the 12 month electricity consumption up until Apr only 3 months ago. This is a change in our methodology as before we had used annual published figures. Specifically we’re using Table 5_01 here. If the link has changed, then navigate to the data page and go to “Sales” and navigate the menu as below. The last item contains two links, XLS and Interactive that lead to rolling 12 month electricity use.

• Retail sales of electricity to ultimate customers
  • Monthly
  • Monthly Release date: Dec 27, 2023|Data from:Electric Power Monthly
    • By sector
    • Available formats: XLS|Interactive

Old data came from the EPA data store on residential electricity provider using these files collected annually.

For the average household electricity use in each state, we use the annual electricity sales by state compiled by the EIA. There are year-to-date figures by state, annual figures and monthly figures but no rolling annual figures so these are updated less frequently.