How this home's electricity use compares to the average similar home.

Compare answers the first question a household asks: is our usage normal. It compares an annual electricity figure against the published national-survey average for similar homes, by region and housing type, square footage, or household size, and states the difference as exactly what it is: a comparison to the average, with the survey vintage attached. It is deliberately not a percentile and not a score, because the survey publishes averages, and pretending otherwise would be invention.

Compare the usage

What it does.

Compares an annual kWh figure against the published average for similar homes in the same census region.
Offers three honest lenses: housing type, square footage band, or household size.
States the survey vintage on every result, and shows the full benchmark tables it computes from.
Flags differences large enough to suggest a meter or bucket mistake before anyone overreacts.
Runs in the browser. Nothing entered is stored.

Who it is for.

Households and program applicants

Get a grounded first read on whether usage is high for a home like theirs, before deciding anything.

Utilities and public program administrators

Give outreach a defensible comparison line with a federal source, instead of a marketing score.

Program field staff

Frame the kitchen-table conversation with the average for homes like this one, vintage attached.

How it works.

Enter the usage

An annual kWh figure from a bill or the measured savings check.

Pick the comparison

Census region, then housing type, square footage, or household size.

Read it as a comparison

More or less than the average similar home, with the vintage stated and the tables inspectable.

What it does, and what it deliberately does not.

Compare does	Compare does not
Compares usage to published survey averages with the vintage stated	Does not produce percentiles, scores, or claims the survey cannot support
Shows the benchmark tables it computes from	Does not store anything or treat a difference as a verdict

Compare does

Compares usage to published survey averages with the vintage stated

Compare does not

Does not produce percentiles, scores, or claims the survey cannot support

Compare does

Shows the benchmark tables it computes from

Compare does not

Does not store anything or treat a difference as a verdict

Availability.

The comparison is live today as a public self-serve tool, no account required, nothing stored. Benchmark framing inside a live program's outreach is arranged with WattShed directly.

Compare the usage Talk to WattShed

The rest of WattShed Field Assessment

11 / ApplyAssessDescribe a home. See what the measures are worth.13 / ApplyFitIs this device ready for demand response? Check the standards, not the brochure.14 / ApplyNowOne home, one sitting, every check in order.18 / ApplyPatternWhat the bill history says about this home, season by season.19 / ApplySiftKnow what your meter data actually contains before you rely on it.20 / ApplyGuardWalk the home once, and keep what you saw.21 / ApplyClearThe homes you deferred are still waiting. Know which, and why.

The other suites

01 / WattShed Design and PricingDesign a program and price every project inside it, on one published methodology.02 / WattShed ApplicationsOne application surface that enforces the program's rules and loses no one on the way in.04 / WattShed VerificationCheck the evidence before anyone is paid, and send what the checks cannot settle to a person.05 / WattShed OperationsRun a live program: budget, contractors, job costs, payments, and the systems you already use.06 / WattShed ReportingTurn program data into a number a regulator, a board, or a utility partner can trust.