Cost to run a treadmill in Kentucky (July 2026 rates)
At 13.81¢ per kilowatt-hour — Kentucky's average residential price in July 2026 — running a treadmill costs $14.50 a year. That is 25% less than the national average of $19.23. Kentucky's residential rate is up 5.2% from July 2025, which moves this appliance from $13.79 to $14.50 a year.
- Per hour
- 9.7¢
- Per day of use
- 7.3¢
- Per month
- $1.21
- Per year
- $14.50
Assumption: 700 W, 45 minutes a day, 200 days a year — 105 kWh a year. A residential motorized treadmill at a walking-to-jogging pace. Incline and heavier users push it higher. Use the calculator to swap in the numbers from your own model.
How Kentucky compares
Kentucky pays 13.81¢/kWh, the 8th cheapest residential electricity of the 51 U.S. jurisdictions EIA reports. For this appliance that works out to $4.72 less a year than the typical U.S. household pays for the same use. Running the same treadmill costs $13.36 a year in Louisiana and $50.40 in Hawaii, so where you live changes this bill by $37.04 a year.
| State | Rate | Per month | Per year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Idaho | 13.73¢ | $1.20 | $14.42 |
| Nebraska | 13.78¢ | $1.21 | $14.47 |
| Kentucky | 13.81¢ | $1.21 | $14.50 |
| Arkansas | 14.33¢ | $1.25 | $15.05 |
| Oklahoma | 14.35¢ | $1.26 | $15.07 |
States ranked by average residential price, cheapest first. See all 51 states for a treadmill.
What else costs about the same in Kentucky
Cutting the number down
- The console and its screen keep drawing when the belt is stopped. Unplugging between sessions removes a standby load.
Questions
- How much does a treadmill cost per month in Kentucky?
- About $1.21 a month, assuming 700 W, 45 minutes a day, 200 days a year at 13.81¢/kWh.
- How many kilowatt-hours does a treadmill use?
- Roughly 105 kWh a year under these assumptions, or 0.70 kWh for every hour it runs.
- Is that expensive compared with other states?
- Kentucky has the 8th cheapest average residential rate in the country, so this appliance costs less here than the U.S. average of $19.23 a year.