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1A: Utility Bill Trends Nationally

  • Average annual residential electric bills by census region, by income before taxes, by age, by home ownership.
  • Based on the U.S. Labor Department semiannual twelve-month survey of nearly twenty-nine thousand households for their actual expenditures including their actual electric and natural gas utility service bills.
  • Electric bill data for each of the last seventeen twelve-month surveys, from the twelve-month survey ending December 2010 through the twelve-month survey ending June 2019. Next update, this fall, will include the twelve-month survey ending December 2019.

1B: Utility Bill Trends Regionally

  • Average annual residential electric bills breaking down each of the four census regions, northeast, midwest, south and west, by income before taxes, by home ownership.
  • Based on the same semiannual twelve-month survey of nearly twenty-nine thousand households.
  • With the same survey frequency and history.