Average Electric Bill by State, Home Type and End Use (US, monthly since 2010)

What US homes pay for electricity each month, for every state and the US, every month since January 2010, from the utilities' own returns to the US Energy Information Administration (Form EIA-861M: residential revenue divided by residential customers). Each bill is split by the kind of home (apartment or house, bedrooms, floor area, people, heating fuel, owned or rented) and by end use (air conditioning, heating, water heating, fridges, lighting and eight more), using ratios and shares from EIA's 2020 Residential Energy Consumption Survey public microdata (18,496 homes) with jackknife standard errors from its 60 replicate weights. The change in each state's bill since 2010 is split exactly into a price part and a use part. Data to August 2026 (months of 2026 are EIA's preliminary figures).

Access. Live page with charts, a state picker and a bill check, refreshed every month: https://greencalculus.com/data/average-electric-bill-by-state/. Open CSV, no key: average-electric-bill-by-state.csv. Code and history: github.com/greencalculus/us-average-electric-bill. This deposit is a frozen snapshot: cite it for reproducibility. The concept DOI 10.5281/zenodo.24067456 always resolves to the newest version.

Headline, 12 months to August 2026. The average US home paid $158 a month for 875 kWh at 18.04¢ per kWh. Hawaii paid most ($228), New Mexico least ($100). Since 2010 the US bill rose from $111: the higher price per kWh added $60 and lower use took off $12. A one-bedroom apartment comes to about $86 a month, a two-bedroom apartment $113, a house of 2,000 to 2,499 sq ft $192, a person living alone $110. Air conditioning is the largest single end use, about 22% of the US bill and 33% in Texas.

Files.

• average-electric-bill-by-state.csv (52 rows): US and every state, 12-month bill, kWh, price, highest and lowest month, change on a year, 2010 bill, change from price and from use, rank.
• average-electric-bill-by-home.csv (1,470 rows): typical bill by type of home, bedrooms, house size, people, heating fuel and tenure, US and every state, with ratio, relative standard error and homes surveyed.
• monthly-electric-bill-by-state.csv (10,400 rows): every month since January 2010, bill, kWh and price per residential customer.
• electric-bill-end-uses.csv (736 rows): share of the bill by end use, US, census divisions and states, with standard errors.
• bill-spread-by-state.csv (988 rows): 5th to 95th percentile of household bills within each state, as a ratio to the state mean (RECS 2020).
• survey-vs-utilities-2020.csv (52 rows): RECS 2020 average annual bill against the utilities' own 2020 count.
• recs-bill.json, elec-rates.json: the two source files every table is built from; build.py and build-recs-bill-data.py rebuild them; datapackage.json describes every column.

Method. Bill = residential revenue ÷ residential customers (EIA-861M), each month; the 12-month figure is the mean of the latest 12 months. EIA counts gross revenue: energy and demand charges, customer charges, fuel adjustments, environmental surcharges, franchise fees and taxes billed in the normal way, but not credits or adjustments from earlier periods (EIA-861 instructions, Schedule 2 Part C). From RECS 2020 only ratios are taken (a group's mean DOLLAREL ÷ its census division's mean; each end use's share of DOLLAREL), applied to the current EIA-861M bill, so the dollar level always comes from the utilities. A group is published only with at least 30 surveyed homes and a relative standard error of at most 30%. Price part = (p₁ − p₀)(k₀ + k₁)/2; use part = (k₁ − k₀)(p₀ + p₁)/2; they add up exactly to the change. Check: for 2020 the survey's US average bill was $1,380 a year and the utilities' $1,409 (2.1% apart). Dollars of each year, not adjusted for inflation.

Licence. The EIA source data are US Government works in the public domain. This compilation is released under CC BY 4.0.

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