Cost to run a treadmill in Illinois (June 2026 rates)
At 19.89¢ per kilowatt-hour — Illinois's average residential price in June 2026 — running a treadmill costs $20.88 a year. That is 8% more than the national average of $19.26. Illinois's residential rate is up 8.7% from June 2025, which moves this appliance from $19.20 to $20.88 a year.
- Per hour
- 13.9¢
- Per day of use
- 10.4¢
- Per month
- $1.74
- Per year
- $20.88
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 Illinois compares
Illinois pays 19.89¢/kWh, the 16th most expensive residential electricity of the 51 U.S. jurisdictions EIA reports. For this appliance that works out to $1.63 more a year than the typical U.S. household pays for the same use. Running the same treadmill costs $13.77 a year in Nevada and $55.36 in Hawaii, so where you live changes this bill by $41.59 a year.
| State | Rate | Per month | Per year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Delaware | 19.29¢ | $1.69 | $20.25 |
| Wisconsin | 19.56¢ | $1.71 | $20.54 |
| Illinois | 19.89¢ | $1.74 | $20.88 |
| Pennsylvania | 21.73¢ | $1.90 | $22.82 |
| Maryland | 21.84¢ | $1.91 | $22.93 |
States ranked by average residential price, cheapest first. See all 51 states for a treadmill.
What else costs about the same in Illinois
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 Illinois?
- About $1.74 a month, assuming 700 W, 45 minutes a day, 200 days a year at 19.89¢/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?
- Illinois has the 16th most expensive average residential rate in the country, so this appliance costs more here than the U.S. average of $19.26 a year.