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Number of domestic gas meters (thousands) | Local Authority | 2016

Title Total number of domestic gas meters
Description Number of domestic gas meters.

Domestic consumers are defined as those using less than 73,200 kWh of gas each year. Gas transporters supply Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy (BEIS) with address point data for each gas meter. The address point data is then used to match each gas meter to a local authority using the National Statistics Postcode Directory and the Postal Address File (PAF).
For domestic gas consumption the data covers the months as follows:
2021: mid-May 2021 to mid-May 2022
2020: mid-May 2020 to mid-May 2021
2019: mid-May 2019 to mid-May 2020
2018: mid-May 2018 to mid-May 2019
2017: mid-June 2017 to mid-June 2018
2016: mid-July 2016 – mid-July 2017
Prior to 2016: October – September.
Unit of analysis Number (thousands)
Date available * December 2017
Frequency of publication Annual
Service / policy area Environment
Subject Domestic energy consumption
Part of Domestic energy consumption statistics
Publisher Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy
Rights You may use and re-use this data free of charge in any format or medium, under the terms of the Open Government License - see website for further details.