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 income.
Fuel costs.
Energy consumption (impacted by the energy efficiency of the dwelling).
For more information on Surrey County Council's retrofit support programme to improve the energy efficiency of your home, including support for those on lower incomes, please visit Home energy saving support for residents - Surrey County Council (surreycc.gov.uk)
NEW: The latest dashboard update includes the newly agreed Unitary Authority boundaries which can be accessed via the filter panels.
Fuel poverty in Surrey rated at 7.3% of all domestic households (37,500 households) in 2024. While this is lower than both England and the South East at 9.9% and 8.2% respectively.
There was a 1% decrease in the proportion of fuel poor households compared to 2022 (-3,460 households). This represents a 0.1 percentage point decrease from 8.3% in 2022 to 8.2% in 2023.
Every District and Borough registered a decrease in the proportion of fuel poor homes, compared to 2022.
There are over 22,400 domestic properties with an EPC rating of F or lower (4.5%) with the potential of bringing this figure down to only 2,900.
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 - 2024 data (Released in May 2026):
Fuel poverty statistics - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)
Average Gas/Electric Energy consumption - 2023 data (Released in 2025):
Sub-national gas consumption data - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)
Sub-national electricity consumption data - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)
Energy Performance Certificate - December 2024 data (Released in October 2024):
Energy Performance of Buildings Data England and Wales (opendatacommunities.org)
Electric prepayment meters 2017 data (Released April 2019):
% in Fuel Poverty 2020 (expected next data release: May 2023).
% Connected to Gas Network 2020 (expected next data release: TBC).
Average Gas/Electric Energy Use 2020 (expected next data release: TBC).
Energy Efficiency of Domestic Buildings* 2017-2021 (expected next data release: May 2023).
