Fuel Poverty & related statistics

This page includes a dashboard of fuel poverty and consumption in Surrey as well as other associated datasets which may be relevant to fuel poverty.

Fuel poverty affects households that need to spend a high proportion of their income to maintain a reasonable temperature. This is affected by 3 key factors:

• Household's income.
• Fuel costs.
• Energy consumption (impacted by the energy efficiency of the dwelling).

Highlights:

• Fuel poverty in Surrey rated at 8.3% of all domestic households (41,000 households) in 2022. While this is lower than both England and the South East at 13.1% and 9.7% respectively.
• There was a 26% increase in the number of fuel poor households compared to 2021 (+7,000 households). This represents a 1.4 percentage point increase from 6.9% in 2021 to 8.3% in 2022.
• Elmbridge (+2.2pp), Tandridge (+2.2pp) and Waverley (2.1pp) are the Local Authorities with the largest percentage increase in the proportion of fuel poor households.
• There are over 22,000 domestic properties with an EPC rating of F or lower (4.7%).
• Domestic mean and median electricity consumption averages in Surrey are both higher than England and South East averages.
• Domestic mean and median gas consumption averages in Surrey are both higher than England and South East averages.
• There are approximately 25,000 electric prepayment meters in Surrey with an average consumption rate of 4,450 kWh.

The dashboard below delves further into Fuel poverty and consumption for both Local Authorities and Lower-layer Super Output Areas (LSOAs) within. The dashboard is also available on Tableau Public.

The latest data included is from:

Fuel Poverty - 2022 data (Released in April 2024):

Fuel poverty statistics - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)

Average Gas/Electric Energy consumption - 2022 data (Released in January 2024):

Sub-national gas consumption data - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)

Sub-national electricity consumption data - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)

Energy Performance Certificate - January 2024 data (Released in February 2024):

Energy Performance of Buildings Data England and Wales (opendatacommunities.org)

Electric prepayment meters 2017 data (Released April 2019):

Electric prepayment meter statistics - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)