Average Electric Bill in Ohio
Residential · 12-month average, September 2025 – August 2026.
That works out to about $1,917 a year. Among the 50 states and DC, Ohio has the 22nd highest average residential bill.
Data current through August 2026 — the latest available from the U.S. EIA, which publishes monthly figures on a roughly two-month delay.
What makes up the bill
Price × usage = bill, exactly: 18.43¢/kWh × 867 kWh ≈ $160. A state can land high on either factor — Ohio sits close to the U.S. average on both.
Compared with nearby states
| Ohio | $160 | |
|---|---|---|
| U.S. average | $158 | |
| Pennsylvania | $175 | |
| West Virginia | $164 | |
| Indiana | $159 | |
| Kentucky | $155 | |
| Michigan | $134 |
Ohio is $1 a month above (+0.9%) the U.S. average of $158. Neighboring states share fuel mixes, weather, and often a grid operator, which makes them a closer benchmark than the national average.
Trend since 2008
Each point is a trailing 12-month average, which strips out the summer/winter swing and leaves the underlying trend. Bills start in January 2008 because that is when EIA began reporting customer counts.
Seasonal swing
- Highest month
- $224
- July 2026
- Lowest month
- $117
- October 2025
- Swing
- $107
- peak minus low
- Latest month
- $199
- August 2026
Actual bills are far from flat: Ohio peaks in July 2026 and bottoms out in October 2025. The headline figure above is the average across all twelve months.
Ohio electricity bills in context
Ohio's average residential electricity bill was $160 per month in the twelve months ending August 2026, ranking 22nd among the 50 states and DC. At 18.43¢/kWh, the price paid was slightly above the national average of 18.07¢/kWh, and homes used 867 kWh per month, compared with 876 nationally. The price premium pushed the bill above the national average of $158, though usage slightly below the national level worked in the opposite direction.
The monthly bill climbed 10.6% from a year earlier, when it was $144. Over the five years since August 2021, it rose 44.7%, and since December 2008 the longer-term gain reached 74.6%. Seasonal variation was pronounced: the peak came in July 2026 at $224, while October 2025 fell to a low of $117, a swing of $107.
Among Ohio's neighbors, the bill in Pennsylvania was $175, in West Virginia $164, and in Indiana $159. Kentucky came in lower at $155, while Michigan's average of $134 was notably below Ohio's.
Written from the EIA figures on this page, covering data through August 2026.
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How this is calculated
EIA’s retail-sales dataset reports, for every state and month, total residential revenue and the number of residential customers served. The average monthly bill is simply the first divided by the second — total spending across all households, spread evenly over all accounts.
bill = revenue ÷ customers · averaged over 12 months (September 2025 – August 2026)
Two caveats worth knowing. It is an average, so it blends apartments with large houses — a typical household in Ohio may pay well above or below $160. And it counts what was actually billed for electricity, including fixed service charges, so it is not the same as multiplying your own usage by the advertised rate.
Looking for the rate rather than the bill? See Ohio electricity prices by sector.