Household bills guides

This is the cross-cutting stuff: what a UK household actually spends across every bill, how those bills are calculated, and where the realistic savings are once you have stopped reading listicles. Useful if you are budgeting for a first place, comparing what you pay against the average, or working out which bill to attack first.

Use the bill calculator for an estimate based on your property rather than a national average, and see average bills for a UK household for the current benchmark. Our utilities hub breaks the same ground down bill by bill.

If bills have become genuinely unaffordable rather than merely annoying, Citizens Advice covers grants, social tariffs and payment plans, and GOV.UK lists the support you may be entitled to.