Average Electric Bill by State: Compare the 2025 Figures

The US average was about $151 a month in 2025

Residential electricity spending averaged about $151 per customer per month across the United States in 2025, calculated from the Energy Information Administration’s latest annual revenue and customer totals. The national average price was 17.23¢ per kWh, with average monthly use of about 874 kWh.

State averages ranged from roughly $95 in New Mexico to $208 in Hawaii. Those figures describe an entire year of residential customer accounts. They are not quotes for a new electricity plan, and they do not tell you what a particular house should use.

The table below uses 2025 data from the Electric Power Annual released October 21, 2026. Bills and usage are calculated from its published totals and rounded to the nearest dollar and whole kWh. The price column uses EIA’s published residential average. All figures were checked October 30, 2026.

Average electric bills in every state and DC

Read the bill, consumption and price columns together. A state can have a comparatively low price but a high monthly bill if residential customers use more electricity. These are annual monthly averages, not the cost of a particular summer or winter month.

Why the cheapest electricity does not always mean the smallest bill

California and Texas show why a price ranking can give a different impression from a bill ranking. California’s residential average was 31.35¢ per kWh, compared with 15.40¢ in Texas. Yet the calculated monthly bill was about $155 in California and $171 in Texas.

The usage column explains the arithmetic: around 494 kWh a month in California and 1,110 kWh in Texas. A lower unit price does not cancel out a much larger quantity of electricity. These state totals do not establish why an individual home uses more, or whether a particular customer has a good deal.

Weather, the mix of heating fuels and the characteristics of the homes being compared can make a household comparison less useful. EIA also identifies generation fuels, power-plant costs, grid costs, weather and regulation as influences on electricity prices. A state boundary alone is not an explanation for a specific charge on your statement.

What an annual average can and cannot tell you

The bill calculation is annual residential revenue divided by residential customer accounts, then divided by 12. It is an arithmetic average per account, not a median household bill. It includes different kinds of residential customers in one statewide total, so it is not a benchmark tailored to a two-bedroom apartment or a large detached house.

The US figure is calculated from the national totals. It is not the simple average of the 51 state-and-DC figures: that would give a small state the same influence as a much larger one.

These are nominal 2025 dollars, with no inflation adjustment. The published revenue and sales totals are rounded, so we show derived bills in whole dollars rather than implying cent-level precision. Do not expect multiplying the displayed, rounded kWh by the displayed price to reproduce every bill exactly.

The electricity price is an average associated with revenue and energy sales. It is not a utility tariff you can sign up for. Treating it as a household usage rate and then adding every fixed fee on top can produce a misleading estimate.

Compare the same thing on your own account

For an annual comparison, collect the current electricity charges and billed kWh from a full year of statements. Keep old balances, deposits and payments separate from the cost of the electricity service for those periods. Divide the year’s charges by 12 to get your own monthly average.

As a simple invented example, $1,800 of electricity charges over a complete year averages $150 a month. If the same year covers 9,000 kWh, average consumption is 750 kWh a month. The all-in average is $1,800 ÷ 9,000 = $0.20, or 20¢ per kWh. That last number includes whatever fixed charges were already counted in the $1,800.

You can now separate two questions: how much electricity did the account use, and how much did each kWh cost on average after those charges? That is more informative than comparing a single $150 payment with a statewide annual average.

If you have only one statement, note its service dates and number of billed days. A 33-day period is not directly comparable with a 28-day period. If you pay a level budget-billing installment, look for the underlying electricity charges as well as the payment amount.

Use your actual rate for a forward estimate

To estimate a future flat-rate bill, use your expected kWh and the utility rate that will apply during that period. Enter the rate in cents per kWh, then add the applicable fixed charges and separately entered taxes or fees once. Keep a rate calculated from an all-in historical total separate from those tariff components.

The US calculator uses a single electricity rate. It does not reconstruct time-of-use schedules, price tiers, demand charges or solar export credits. For those plans, use the utility’s detailed rate schedule rather than substituting the state average.

If your account is well above the state figure, start with the usage and rate columns before assuming there is an error. Have the service dates, billed kWh and relevant charge lines ready when you ask the utility to explain a difference. The state average is a starting point for that comparison, not proof that your bill is wrong.