Electric companies in Somerset County, New Jersey

Somerset County, NJ on the map

Electric utilities in Somerset County, NJ

Plans from retail suppliers are not in public data, so no plan prices are shown. The listed utilities deliver the power, and which one serves your street depends on the address.

Housing and heating in Somerset County, NJ

Somerset County, NJ: 62,220 of 132,831 homes were built before 1980 and 21,413 in 2000 or later. Somerset County, NJ has 78,040 detached houses, 23,078 homes in 5+ unit buildings, 335 mobile homes, and 33,045 of 129,459 households rent.

ZIP codes in Somerset County, NJ

• 07059
• 07060
• 07063
• 07069
• 07920
• 07921
• 07924
• 07931
• 07934
• 07939
• 07977
• 08502
• 08528
• 08540
• 08553
• 08558
• 08805
• 08807
• 08812
• 08821
• 08823
• 08835
• 08836
• 08844
• 08853
• 08869
• 08873
• 08876
• 08880
• 08890

Facts about Somerset County, NJ

Residents of Somerset County, NJ, ACS 2023

346,20313 of 21 New Jersey counties

Households in Somerset County, NJ

129,4592.67 people each

Owner-occupied homes in Somerset County, NJ

74.5%96,414 owner and 33,045 renter households

Median household income in Somerset County, NJ

$135,9602 of 21 New Jersey counties

Housing units in Somerset County, NJ

132,8313,372 vacant or seasonal, 2.5% of the units

Homes heated by electricity in Somerset County, NJ

13.2%17,119 homes, 13 of 21 New Jersey counties

Utilities listed for Somerset County, NJ

22 with a home price: Jersey Central Power & Lt Co, Public Service Elec & Gas Co

ZIP areas touching Somerset County, NJ

3007059 to 08890

Outage-linked storm events in Somerset County, NJ

226NWS storm events, 2015 to 2025

Homes built before 1980 in Somerset County, NJ

46.8%median year built 1982

Flood claims in Somerset County, NJ

1,123NFIP 2015 to 2025, $79.8M paid

Home energy burden in Somerset County, NJ

1.3%$1,337 a year on electricity (DOE LEAD)

Electricity price since 2015 in Somerset County, NJ

Somerset County, NJ has no price series of its own. Somerset County, NJ: the New Jersey average was 15.81 ¢/kWh in 2015. Somerset County, NJ: 19.34 ¢ in 2024, 22% up. Somerset County, NJ: against 30% up for the U.S. average.

Somerset County, NJ: a 662 kWh month at the New Jersey price. Somerset County, NJ: $105 in 2015, $128 in 2024. Somerset County, NJ: $1,537 a year, 1.1% of the $135,960 median income.

Cost of living with electricity in Somerset County, NJ

Somerset County, NJ: electricity $1,337 a year per home (DOE LEAD), all home energy $2,178, 1.3% of $172,236 income. 127,566 households in Somerset County, NJ spend about $170.6 million a year on electricity and $277.8 million on all home energy. Lower-income homes in Somerset County, NJ ($27,234 a year) spend 5.3% of income, 4.2 times the all-home figure.

Outage risk in Somerset County, NJ

Somerset County, NJ, NWS storm events 2015 to 2025: 226 in all, 65.3 per 100,000 residents of 346,203, rank 6 of 21 New Jersey counties. Property damage in Somerset County, NJ: $10K.

Flood claims and flood insurance in Somerset County, NJ

Somerset County, NJ: 1,123 NFIP flood claims in 2015 to 2025, $79.8M paid, median paid claim $46,822.

1,407 of 104,223 residential structures in Somerset County, NJ carry an NFIP contract. 1,759 NFIP policies of any type were in force in Somerset County, NJ on 8 Sep 2026. Somerset County, NJ lists 1,006 repetitive-loss properties, 276 of them severe repetitive loss.

Somerset County, NJ: claims history, not an outage count.

Somerset County, NJ: OpenFEMA NFIP, claims as of 8 Sep 2026, insured share as of 3 Aug 2026; counts under 5 are hidden.

Somerset County, NJ: flood claims by state, flood hub.

Climate and electric heating in Somerset County, NJ

Somerset County, NJ totals 5,198 heating degree days and 856 cooling degree days a year (1991-2020 normal).

For heating, Somerset County, NJ is the 6th coldest of 21 counties in New Jersey: 5,198 against a median of 4,909. For cooling, Somerset County, NJ is the 16th hottest: 856 against a median of 972.

Somerset County, NJ is a cold-winter county, with 4,342 more heating than cooling degree days.

Somerset County, NJ: 4,873 heating degree days in 2016-2025, 5,198 on the normal, 6% under.

In Somerset County, NJ, a minority of homes heat with electricity: 13.2% of 129,459, in a 5,198 degree-day climate.

Somerset County, NJ: ACS B25040, 129,459 homes; NOAA nClimDiv, retrieved 7 Oct 2026.

Bill and heat pump calculator, Somerset County, NJ

Compare Somerset County, NJ with its neighbours

• Middlesex County sits 11 miles southeast of Somerset County, NJ, with 861,535 residents against 346,203 there, 203 storm events against 226, median home built 1973 against 1982, energy burden 1.5% against 1.3%, income $109,028 against $135,960.
• Union County sits 15 miles northeast of Somerset County, NJ, with 572,549 residents against 346,203 there, 163 storm events against 226, median home built 1956 against 1982, energy burden 1.4% against 1.3%, income $100,117 against $135,960.
• Morris County sits 20 miles north of Somerset County, NJ, with 510,375 residents against 346,203 there, 235 storm events against 226, median home built 1971 against 1982, energy burden 1.5% against 1.3%, income $134,929 against $135,960.
• Mercer County sits 23 miles south of Somerset County, NJ, with 383,286 residents against 346,203 there, 160 storm events against 226, median home built 1967 against 1982, energy burden 1.5% against 1.3%, income $96,333 against $135,960.
• Essex County sits 23 miles northeast of Somerset County, NJ, with 854,130 residents against 346,203 there, 115 storm events against 226, median home built 1958 against 1982, energy burden 1.6% against 1.3%, income $76,712 against $135,960.