Understand your home’s energy performance
See how your home compares.
An EPC rating is useful. A fair comparison is better. EPC Benchmark shows how a home performs against properties with a similar type, age, size and local area.
No address is entered and nothing is submitted. This release uses one anonymised example property from the analysed Manchester data.
What EPC Benchmark gives you
A fairer comparison
Homes are matched by property type, age band, floor area and local area, so the comparison is with genuinely similar properties rather than the whole city.
A result in context
See the median score of the matched group, the range it sits within and the home's approximate position, explained in plain language.
Practical next steps
Review the improvement measures recorded on the certificate, with the indicative cost ranges used in EPC assessments.
How it works
- 1
Identify the home
Start from the latest usable domestic assessment recorded for the property in the analysed export.
- 2
Build the closest reliable peer group
Match on area, type, built form, age and floor-area band, widening one attribute at a time only when needed.
- 3
Explain the result and improvements
Compare against the group median, show an approximate position, and list the recorded improvement measures.
The EPC scale, A to G
EPC scores run from 1 to 100 and are grouped into bands. Higher scores mean better modelled energy performance in the assessment.
- Band A, scores 92 to 100
- Band B, scores 81 to 91
- Band C, scores 69 to 80
- Band D, scores 55 to 68
- Band E, scores 39 to 54
- Band F, scores 21 to 38
- Band G, scores 1 to 20
What this service is, and what it is not
- An independent demonstration. EPC Benchmark is not an official government service and is not affiliated with any department, supplier or agency.
- Built on analysed domestic EPC data for Manchester, covering 268,839 certificate rows.
- Uses the latest usable assessment for each property, so a home appears once rather than repeatedly.
- Not a survey, valuation, quotation or legal advice. Certificates are modelled assessments and can become outdated.
Ready to see a comparison?
Open the anonymised example to see the full result: score, matched group, position and the recorded improvement measures.
Compare the example home