# The cost of a warm home

> Fuel poverty, damp, energy efficiency and consumption expose different parts of the struggle to keep a home warm.

- Category: Housing
- Canonical: [https://londongraph.com/story/the-cost-of-a-warm-home](https://londongraph.com/story/the-cost-of-a-warm-home)
- Machine-readable record: [https://londongraph.com/data/story/the-cost-of-a-warm-home](https://londongraph.com/data/story/the-cost-of-a-warm-home)
- Latest contributing release: 2026-08-02T22:02:50.900Z

A low-energy home is not automatically affordable, and high consumption can reflect a large dwelling rather than comfort. This story holds modelled housing condition, certificates, metered use and fuel-poverty estimates apart while asking where they overlap.

## Evidence

### Fuel poverty

The modelled percentage of households in fuel poverty at neighbourhood level.

- Current computed headline: Hammersmith and Fulham 001E — 21.26% (2024)
- London median: 9.25%
- Release: Sub-regional fuel poverty 2026 report: 2024 data
- Dataset: `fuel-poverty-neighbourhoods`
- Explore: [fuel-poverty-neighbourhoods](https://londongraph.com/g/fuel-poverty-neighbourhoods)

### Efficient homes

The share of lodged domestic EPC certificates rated C or better.

- The dataset is not available on this deployment; no value is substituted.
- Dataset: `epc-by-borough`
- Explore: [warm-boroughs-and-cold-ones](https://londongraph.com/g/warm-boroughs-and-cold-ones)
- Caveat: EPC lodgements are not a census of every dwelling.

### Modelled damp

Local-authority modelled estimates of homes affected by damp.

- Current computed headline: City of London — 11.93% (2024)
- London median: 6.51%
- Release: English Housing Survey 2024 local-authority housing stock condition modelling
- Dataset: `londons-housing-condition`
- Explore: [londons-housing-condition](https://londongraph.com/g/londons-housing-condition)

### Domestic gas use

Mean domestic gas consumption per meter by borough.

- The dataset is not available on this deployment; no value is substituted.
- Dataset: `home-energy-use-by-borough`
- Explore: [home-energy-use-by-borough](https://londongraph.com/g/home-energy-use-by-borough)

## Interpretation

These measures use different dwelling universes and model years. Energy consumption is not a direct measure of comfort, hardship or household behaviour.

Every numerical claim is computed from the current versioned datasets at render time. Missing data is reported as missing rather than replaced.

## Sources

- [DESNZ](https://www.data.gov.uk/dataset/f3009590-2bc9-40d9-8dc3-571e6fddae45/fuel_poverty_sub-regional_statistics)
- [EPC register (MHCLG)](https://get-energy-performance-data.communities.gov.uk/)
- [Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government](https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/english-housing-survey-2024-to-2025-local-authority-housing-stock-condition-modelling)
- [DESNZ](https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/sub-national-electricity-consumption-data)