Average Electric Bill by State

The average US household paid $151 a month for electricity in 2025. The state averages run from $95 in New Mexico to $208 in Hawaii, and the reason for the gap is rarely the one people expect. Hawaii has the dearest power in the country, but after that, price stops predicting the bill. California pays 31.35 cents per kilowatt-hour, about 2.0 times Texas's 15.4 cents, yet the typical California bill was $155 against $171 in Texas. How much electricity a home uses matters more than what each unit costs.

These are averages calculated from what electricity providers reported, not survey estimates. Every year, each electric utility and other electricity provider reports its residential revenue, sales and customer numbers to the U.S. Energy Information Administration on Form EIA-861. Dividing a year's residential revenue by the number of customers, then by 12, gives the average monthly bill, fees and fixed charges included.

Monthly Electric Bill in Every State, 2025

Sorted from highest to lowest bill. The house and apartment columns are estimates: they price the typical monthly use of each type of home, from EIA's 2020 household survey, at the state's 2025 average price. They are left blank where the survey had too few homes of that type in the state.

21 of the 50 states and DC had an average bill above the national figure of $151.

Price or Use: What Drives the Bill

The most expensive power is in Hawaii (40.4 cents), California (31.35 cents), Massachusetts (30.41 cents), Rhode Island (29.48 cents), Connecticut (29.31 cents). The cheapest is in North Dakota (11.82), Idaho (11.83), Nebraska (12.05), Louisiana (12.52). If price set the bill, the first list would also be the highest bills. Apart from Hawaii, it mostly is not.

Use explains more. Homes in Louisiana (1,225 kWh), Mississippi (1,184 kWh), Tennessee (1,180 kWh), Alabama (1,145 kWh), Texas (1,110 kWh) use the most electricity a month, and several of those states appear near the top of the bill table even with average or below-average prices. Louisiana shows the pattern clearly: power there costs 12.52 cents per kWh, among the cheapest in the country, but its homes use 1,225 kWh a month, the most of any state, so the average bill still came to $153. At the other end, homes in California (494), Hawaii (515), Maine (533), Rhode Island (562) use the least, which is how California keeps its bills close to the national average despite high prices.

Why use varies so much is beyond what this bill data can show directly, but EIA's household survey points to the big end uses. In its 2020 figures, air conditioning was the largest single use of electricity in the average US home, at 19.4 percent, with electric space heating and water heating close behind, and our analysis of where electricity goes in a home shows how the mix changes with the heating fuel.

How Bills Have Changed Since 2015

The average US bill rose from $114 a month in 2015 to $151 in 2025, up 32 percent, while the average customer's use barely moved, from 901 kWh a month to 874. Almost all of the increase came from the price of each kilowatt-hour, and most of it arrived after 2021.

The rise was far from even. Bills grew fastest in Maine (up 70 percent), California (up 63 percent), Massachusetts (up 52 percent), West Virginia (up 47 percent), and slowest in Kansas (up 14 percent), South Carolina (up 12 percent), Nevada (down 1 percent). The 2015 figures here are calculated the same way EIA calculates its published bill table, from each provider's residential revenue and customer counts; the method reproduces EIA's 2025 table exactly.

House or Apartment

The type of home matters as much as the state. In states where the survey had enough houses and apartments to compare, the estimated house bill averaged $79 a month more than the apartment bill. In Texas, for example, the estimates are $194 for a house and $111 for an apartment. The survey figures here do not say how much of that gap comes from size, household numbers or equipment.

How to Use This Table

Compare your own bills with your state's average, but compare kWh first and dollars second. The kWh figure on your bill tells you how much you used; if it is close to your state's average and your bill is still higher, your rate or fixed charges are the difference, and it may be worth checking whether your utility or state offers a different plan. If your kWh is well above average, the answer is in your home: heating, cooling and the water heater are the largest uses in EIA's survey. Our guide to electric water heater electricity use shows how much one appliance can account for.

Texas has its own page, average electric bill in Texas, which looks at why bills there run above the national average.

How This Is Calculated

The monthly bill, use and price come from the Average Monthly Bill table in EIA's 2025 Form EIA-861 data, which covers 144,800,940 residential customers. EIA calculates them from the revenue, sales and customer counts that electricity providers report. Because revenue includes customer service charges, the bill includes fixed monthly fees. The house and apartment estimates use household electricity use from EIA's 2020 Residential Energy Consumption Survey, priced at each state's 2025 average price; 2020 was a year when many people spent more time at home, so those estimates may run slightly high.

Earlier versions of this page estimated bills by multiplying 2020 survey use by a single month's price. The figures above replace that with averages calculated from the revenue and customer counts providers reported for 2025.

Frequently Asked Questions

Sources and Data

• EIA-861 Annual Electric Power Industry Report, 2025 Average Monthly Bill (Residential)
• EIA 2020 Residential Energy Consumption Survey (house and apartment usage)
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