US States With the Lowest Average Household Electricity Prices

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

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