Eau Claire: Percent Gas Heating by Block Group Using 2000 Census Data

 Gas Heat --

"Natural gas is one of the cheapest forms of energy available to the residential consumer.  In fact, natural gas has historically been much cheaper than electricity as a source of energy... According to the Department of Energy natural gas costs less than 30 percent of the cost of electricity, per Btu (British thermal unit)." NaturalGas.org

Patterns--

Gas heating is the overwhelmingly popular choice of heating source in the city of Eau Claire.  Fifteen of the block groups shown on the map get 64%-86% of their heating from gas and thirty-three block groups get 43-63% of their heating from gas.  Of the fifty-five block groups shown on the map, only four receive less than 22%of their heat from gas heating. 

This graph illustrates the estimated cost per Btu for five popular household heating options.

NaturalGas.org

Source:

http://www.naturalgas.org/overview/uses_residential.asp