About this data

Source: Department for Energy Security and Net Zero (DESNZ), Fuel poverty trends 2026 and Sub-regional fuel poverty data

• England (Low Income Low Energy Efficiency): a household is fuel poor if its home has an energy efficiency rating of band D or below and, after paying for housing and the energy it needs, its income is below the poverty line.
• This Low Income Low Energy Efficiency (LILEE) measure has been England's official measure since 2021. DESNZ has estimated it back to 2010. Before that, England used the Low Income High Costs measure, which gave rates of around 11–13% between 2003 and 2019.
• A change in how home energy efficiency ratings are calculated affects the earlier years: DESNZ estimates that rates for 2017 and before would be about 2 percentage points lower on today's assumptions.
• The figure for 2025 is a provisional estimate, based on modelling one year ahead of the latest survey data.

This chart appears in Poverty.