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Average electricity bill for 5 or more people

Across the four cities below, a household of five or more people uses between 20.1 and 24.7 kWh a day. Where you live moves that figure more than almost anything else you can control.

Benchmark electricity use for 5 or more people, by city
City kWh a daykWh a yearEstimated yearly bill
Adelaide 23.98,719$5,088
Sydney 24.79,008$4,327
Melbourne 20.17,351$2,924
Brisbane 24.18,803$3,804

Benchmark source published: December 2020 How we work this out

What is different about a household of five or more people

The benchmark puts every household of five or more people in one group, so a five-person house and an eight-person house share the same figure of about 8,470 kWh a year. Treat it as a broad comparison rather than a precise expectation for a large household.

In several regions the source data did not contain enough large households to model them separately, so the benchmark for four and five-plus people is identical. Where that is the case, the comparison is weaker than it is for smaller households, and we would put more weight on comparing your own bills year to year.

Season by season

Kilowatt hours per quarter for 5 or more people.

Benchmark electricity use for 5 or more people in kWh per quarter
City SummerAutumnWinterSpring
Adelaide 2,0802,0192,6881,932
Sydney 2,1582,0822,7612,007
Melbourne 1,6861,7182,2451,702
Brisbane 2,4302,1822,1532,038

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