US States With the Highest Average Household Electricity Prices

51 US states ranked by average household electricity price, from highest to lowest. First are Hawaii (42.4), Connecticut (29.9) and Massachusetts (29.6). The middle one of the 51 has 14.3.

What this measures

What homes paid for electricity on average over the year, in cents per kilowatt-hour: all household electricity bills in the state divided by the electricity homes used. A kilowatt-hour runs a 1,000-watt heater for one hour. Prices are in each year's dollars, not adjusted for inflation, so compare states within a year rather than across decades. From the US Energy Information Administration (EIA), counting every kind of electricity company, from 1970. Source: US Energy Information Administration, EIA-861.

For most measures, a national ranking mostly sorts places by income and by how urban they are. Each county’s own page compares it with the 50 counties most like it instead, which is often the fairer view.

Every state

Rank	State	cents per kWh
1	Hawaii	42.4
2	Connecticut	29.9
3	Massachusetts	29.6
4	California	29.5
5	New Hampshire	28.1
6	Maine	27.4
7	Rhode Island	27
8	Alaska	23.9
9	New York	22.3
10	Vermont	20.8
11	Michigan	18.8
12	Pennsylvania	18.1
13	New Jersey	17.7
14	Wisconsin	16.9
15	Nevada	16.7
16	Maryland	16.6
17	District of Columbia	16.4
18	Delaware	15.7
19	Illinois	15.7
20	Ohio	15.4
21	Florida	15.2
22	Indiana	14.9
23	Minnesota	14.7
24	Alabama	14.6
25	Texas	14.5
26	Colorado	14.3
27	Virginia	14.3
28	West Virginia	14.1
29	Arizona	14
30	New Mexico	13.8
31	Georgia	13.7
32	South Carolina	13.7
33	Kansas	13.4
34	Iowa	13.3
35	Mississippi	13.2
36	North Carolina	12.9
37	Oregon	12.7
38	Kentucky	12.7
39	Missouri	12.6
40	Montana	12.5
41	South Dakota	12.3
42	Arkansas	12.3
43	Tennessee	12.2
44	Oklahoma	12.1
45	Louisiana	11.6
46	Wyoming	11.5
47	Nebraska	11.2
48	Utah	11.2
49	Idaho	11.1
50	North Dakota	11
51	Washington	11

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