Average electric bill in Michigan
A typical Michigan household pays
$131a month · $1566 a year
That is 13% below the national average of $149, the 37th highest bill of the 51 states we track. It covers 635 kilowatt hours a month at 22.01¢ each.
Nobody pays the average
Dearest — July 2025
$185
Cheapest — October 2025
$106
The dearest month costs $79 more than the cheapest — 75% higher and it is air conditioning that does it. Michigan runs about 700 cooling degree days a year, so the summer bill is where any efficiency gain shows up.
Why the bill is what it is
A bill is a rate multiplied by a quantity, and in Michigan the amount of electricity used is doing most of the work. Comparing your own bill to this figure only tells you something once you know which of the two you could actually change — the rate is largely fixed, the quantity is not.
Heating and cooling are usually the largest movable part. Whether that means a heat pump, a more efficient air conditioner, or neither depends on Michigan's prices rather than on general advice.
Figures are twelve-month averages across 4,557,020 residential accounts in Michigan, from the US Energy Information Administration. They describe the state, not your house — square footage, insulation and what you keep the thermostat at move an individual bill a long way. See the Michigan rate page for the underlying prices.