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Texas natural gas cost: $17.98 per Mcf in the capital of gas country

It is the most counterintuitive number in EIA's state gas table. Natural gas delivered to Texas homes cost an average of $17.98 per thousand cubic feet (Mcf) in 2024 — 24% above the U.S. average of $14.50 — in the state most associated with producing the fuel. On the unit a Texas gas bill actually uses, that is about $1.73 per therm. Set beside the state's electricity — 14.94¢ per kWh, 1,096 kWh a month and a $163.72 average bill in the same year — it explains why the Texas household energy question is never simply "gas is cheap here." The commodity is; the delivered residential product, on EIA's evidence, is not.

Prices: EIA, Natural Gas Annual 2024, Table 23 — average price of natural gas delivered to residential consumers (Form EIA-176). Per-therm figures divide by 10.37 (1 Mcf ≈ 10.37 therms).

What "delivered" includes — and why Texas is not cheap

The word doing the work in EIA's table title is "delivered." The residential delivered price is everything at the meter: the wholesale cost of the gas itself, interstate and intrastate pipeline transportation, and the local distribution company's charges for its pipes, metering, service and system upkeep. In much of the country the delivery side is the larger half of the residential price, which is why the national table refuses to follow the production map. Montana, Idaho and North Dakota — not the Gulf — hold its cheapest rows, while Florida ($25.37) and Hawaii ($48.88) hold its dearest, and Texas lands in the upper-middle, above even Louisiana. A Texas household therefore cannot infer its gas bill from headlines about wellhead or hub prices: those prices are one component inside a delivered average dominated by the cost of the last miles of pipe to millions of homes spread across very large service territories. The honest benchmark for a Texas bill is the Texas delivered row itself — $17.98 per Mcf, or $1.73 per therm — compared against the household's own effective per-therm rate, computed by dividing a bill's total by its therms exactly as our bill-reading guide sets out for electricity.

Gas next to electricity in a Texas home

Texas households are heavy electricity users first: 1,096 kWh a month against the 863 kWh national average, driven by long cooling seasons, with a July 2026 snapshot price of 15.88¢ underlining that summer, not winter, is the state's electric peak. Gas in Texas is therefore usually the second fuel in the house — winter heating, water heating and cooking — rather than the main event, and its cost arrives concentrated in a few colder months instead of spread across the year. This site deliberately publishes no "average Texas gas bill": EIA's annual price table carries the price for every state but no per-state household gas consumption figure we can stand behind, so multiplying $17.98 by an outside usage guess would manufacture a statistic. The published route is the one our Texas state guide recommends — take the therms from your own winter bills and price them at the delivered average. For seasonal context, EIA's Winter Fuels Outlook forecasts South-region households heating mainly with gas to spend $511 from November through March in 2026–27 (down 15%), the lowest regional gas figure in the country, reflecting how little heating a southern winter demands of the fuel even at an above-average price per unit.

The delivered fuels around the edges

Outside the gas grid, Texas households meet the same benchmarking limits as the rest of the South. EIA's weekly survey does publish a Texas residential propane price — $3.137 a gallon in the week of October 19, 2026, 17% above the $2.689 U.S. average, or $1,568.50 for the 500-gallon fill used throughout our propane guide — so rural Texas propane users hold an official state benchmark that Pacific-state users, whose states are unsurveyed, do not. Heating oil is the opposite case: EIA publishes no residential heating-oil average for Texas, because oil heat is rare enough there that the state is outside its 21-state survey, and this site prints no estimate in its place. The full Texas picture, fuel by fuel with every source period named, is on our Texas state guide; this page is the gas deep-dive behind its most surprising row.

Sources: EIA — Natural Gas Annual 2024, Table 23 (Form EIA-176) · EIA — Electric Sales, Revenue & Average Price 2024, Table 5A (Form EIA-861) · EIA — Electric Power Monthly, Table 5.6.A (July 2026) · EIA — Heating Oil and Propane Update (week of October 19, 2026) · EIA — Winter Fuels Outlook, October 2026 Short-Term Energy Outlook (published October 6, 2026). Last verified: October 2026 — energy prices move with seasons and markets; confirm the current rate on your own bill.

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