Average electric bill in New Jersey
A typical New Jersey household pays
$160a month · $1922 a year
That is 7% above the national average of $149, the 20th highest bill of the 51 states we track. It covers 673 kilowatt hours a month at 23.27¢ each.
Nobody pays the average
Dearest — July 2025
$287
Cheapest — October 2025
$109
The dearest month costs $178 more than the cheapest — 164% higher and it is air conditioning that does it. New Jersey runs about 1,200 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 New Jersey the price per kilowatt hour 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 New Jersey's prices rather than on general advice.
Figures are twelve-month averages across 3,813,215 residential accounts in New Jersey, 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 New Jersey rate page for the underlying prices.