Queensland Household Energy Survey 2025

Managing household bills

Cost of living stresses have remained consistent in the last twelve months. A majority of households are still concerned about their ability to pay electricity bills (55%, 56% in 2024). Households most likely to have this concern include renters (65%), those without rooftop solar panels (58%), and those with lower incomes ($31K to $71K) (60%). Electricity (55%) is now the second most concerning bill for households, behind food and groceries (60%).

Half of all households also expect significant electricity price increases in the next 12 months (50%, 48% in 2024).

Interest and engagement with electricity bills remained steady in 2025. A majority of participants are still more likely to almost always check the overall cost (58%), feed-in tariff earnings (56%), rebates applied (52%), and year-on-year usage comparisons (51%). However, only around a third (34%) know what tariff applies to their household energy use (34%).

You can use the dropdowns to explore the results of each section in more detail. For most questions you can view the data by location, age group, solar PV ownership and other household characteristics. You can also select the “Trend” button to see how the overall results have changed over time.