Average Electric Bill in America: Monthly Cost by State

Source: Bill rank 1 is the highest bill. Source: EIA Form EIA-861, final 2025 data, residential sector.

A state average mixes small apartments with big houses. These benchmarks come from the EIA Residential Energy Consumption Survey and are priced at the 2025 US average. Open a page to see your state's price applied to the same usage.

Source: EIA Residential Energy Consumption Survey 2020, Table CE4.1, converted to kWh. Prices from EIA Form EIA-861, 2025.

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The apartment and house numbers above use 508 and 1033 kWh. Households of one person average 598 kWh and households of four average 1089 kWh.

EIA collects annual sales, revenue and customer counts from every electric utility and retail provider on Form EIA-861. For the residential sector we use three divisions:

• Average bill is residential revenue divided by residential customers, then by 12.
• Average use is residential sales in kWh divided by customers, then by 12.
• Average price is residential revenue divided by residential sales.

For 2025 the national figures are 144,800,940 residential customers, 874 kWh of use per month and 17.23 cents per kWh. Multiplying use by price gives $150.68, the same as the bill, because the three numbers come from the same revenue and sales totals. The revenue covers what customers are billed for electric service, not only the headline energy rate, which is why the price here can run higher than the rate a supplier advertises. Some sites print a simple average of the 50 state figures instead. That number is different, because small states count as much as large ones. We weight by customers. See the methodology page for details.

• Your home. Floor area, building type and heating fuel move usage more than anything else. See the home type pages above.
• Your utility. Prices differ between utilities inside the same state. Your state page lists the largest providers and what they serve.
• Your plan. Time-of-use rates, tiered prices, fixed charges and budget billing change what a month costs.
• The weather. The averages cover a full year. Summer and winter months can run well above or below.