What % of your income goes on BASIC utilities?

jennifernil

15% for us, we have a big house.

Jules2012

I would add TV license to the above as a basic utility as unlike Sky or Virgin it's compulsory if you have a TV.

Around 10-12%

Starjust

About 6-7% of combined though I'm not sure what conclusions you can draw from this.
I would have thought that mortgage was proportional ish to earnings however utility bills are going to be much the same, regardless of earnings. Unless you are heating a castle perhaps...
I fear all you are really going to learn here is how much people earn.

lazer

My utilities are as follows

Oil - £50 a month (2 fills a year around £300)
Electricity - About £25 - £35 a month
Rates - £96 a month (But only for 10 months)

They are the only essentials really, but other things I would inlclude as basic

Phone/Internet - £20 a month
TV Licence - £12 a month
Mobile phone - £10 a month

Luxury Utilities
Sky TV - £21 a month
Mobile Phone (Upgraded spec from basic) - £5 a month
Lovefilm - £4 a month

So its somewhere between 5% and 10% of household income

nearlyrich

Around 5% of my take home goes on my share of the bills ...

LuSiVe

Jules2012 wrote: »

I would add TV license to the above as a basic utility as unlike Sky or Virgin it's compulsory if you have a TV.

Around 10-12%

*Use* a TV (or anything else come to that) to watch live broadcasts ...

Jolaaled

12%.
(includes council tax, water, electric and gas, and wood only)

kloana

£2171.95 joint net monthly income...

...£76.70 council tax (12 months, not 10), £19.34 water, £60.00 duel fuel. So 7.18%.

I'd also class buildings insurance as an essential, as condition of mortgage (and it's the third-to-last thing I'd ever miss paying in an emergency, behind mortgage and council tax). But it's only £19.66 (w/contents).

shirlgirl2004

Our combined essentials as defined by the op (except I did add coal as that is a large part of our heating) are approximately £535 per month but we have a large house so high council tax, heating and water charges. Fortunately this is a very low %age of the household income.

RevolvingDoor

Ours is 10% of hub's income.

If I add Virgin media and Virgin mobiles and TV licence it goes up to about 14%.