The average annual energy bill for households has increased from £1,277 to £4,279 since Jan 2022 (for an average dual fuel household based on typical consumption).
However, government support means average consumer costs will remain at £2,500 a year until Apr 2023.
74% of households in England and Wales said mains gas central heating was their only central heating source 🔥
9% of households said they had electric-only heating – mostly in urban areas - and Greater Manchester had 4 of the 10 neighbourhoods most reliant on this.
While only 3% of all households heat their homes only with oil in England and Wales, the percentage was much higher in some neighbourhoods 🛢️
The East of England had 7 out of the 10 areas where oil-only central heating was most common.
1% of households didn’t have any central heating – equivalent to 367,130 homes.
The South West had the three neighbourhoods where having no central heating was most common.
89% of neighbourhoods had more households with no central heating than those centrally heated by renewable energy only 🌊🏭⚡🔋
5 of the top 10 areas for renewable-only heating were in Cornwall.
You can use our interactive tool to search how homes are heated in your neighbourhood.
We've led the development of a new method for estimating the number of excess deaths across UK countries.
Julie Stanborough talks us through the data released today and how this new method will give us a better understanding in this complex area ➡️ ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulati…
Expected number of deaths used to calculate excess mortality is now estimated from age-specific mortality rates rather than death counts, so changes in population size and age structure are taken into account. Our new method also accounts for trends in population mortality rates.
In 2023, the new method estimates 10,994 excess deaths in the UK, which is 20,448 fewer than the current method.
We've published a new article exploring the disability, health status, ethnic group, religion and employment of people of different sexual orientations (aged 16 years and over) in England and Wales using #Census2021 data.
#Census2021 included a voluntary question about sexual orientation of usual residents aged 16 and over:
▪️ 89.4% said they were straight or heterosexual
▪️ 3.2% identified as lesbian, gay, bisexual or another sexual orientation (LGB+)
▪️ 7.5% did not respond to the question
People who identified as LGB+ were younger on average, with a far higher proportion aged between 16 and 34 years (57.9%) than in the overall population of England and Wales (29.6%).
However, different LGB+ sexual orientation groups had markedly different age distributions.