Average electric bill in Texas
A typical Texas household pays
$173a month · $2078 a year
That is 16% above the national average of $149, the 6th highest bill of the 51 states we track. It covers 1,094 kilowatt hours a month at 16.44¢ each.
Nobody pays the average
Dearest — August 2025
$235
Cheapest — November 2025
$130
The dearest month costs $105 more than the cheapest — 80% higher and it is air conditioning that does it. Texas runs about 2,900 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 Texas 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 Texas's prices rather than on general advice.
Figures are twelve-month averages across 12,903,067 residential accounts in Texas, 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 Texas rate page for the underlying prices.