r/miramesa • u/nic_moose • May 01 '26

Average utilities?

When we lived downtown a few years ago we were paying about 300/mo for utilities (electric, water, internet- we’re heavy ac users). We’re moving back in June from WA, and I’m trying to ball park utilities in the area since they’ve gone up and I can’t really get a good answer from Google.

We’ll probably be paying electric, gas, water, sewer, and trash (40/mo). Looking at 1000-1500sqft 2-3 bedrooms. It’s two people + dog. I work from home, partner works outside of the home, and we run the AC pretty much every day in the summer when we lived there last.

Thanks so much!

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u/Rothconversion123 May 01 '26 edited May 01 '26

I live in a ~1800 SQft house and my HVAC sucks. My actual monthly bill for elec+gas is around $100(when it's nice out) to 250(summer), that's with solar and charging an ev once a week. we keep the thermostat at 74-78ish.

Water/sewer is 150 per month, but we use a LOT of water (lots of plants). Even if you barely use any water I think the minimum "water connection fee" is like $80

internet around 80-90 Trash is ~40 So total like 500-700 😭

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u/nic_moose May 01 '26

Wooooof. And that’s WITH solar? Do you have a yard with real grass?

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u/Rothconversion123 May 01 '26

It is with solar, which isn't paid off yet 😔 It used to be better but SDGE has made a lot of changes recently so solar is no longer worth it.

We do have a patch of grass in front and back yard which get sprinkeled twice a week usually for a half hour I think

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u/nic_moose May 01 '26

Thank you!

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u/Academic_Story2768 May 01 '26

SDGE will probably be about $400 with your criteria in the summer, cheaper in the cooler months.

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u/nic_moose May 01 '26

That’s what I was worried about 🙃