Abstract: Using statistical data of Beijing City from 2002 to 2012, this study calculated the indirect carbon emissions from rural and urban household consumption in Beijing by 3 income groups based on input-output analysis, and analyzed the influencing factors of indirect carbon emissions from rural and urban household consumption employing Structural decomposition analysis(SDA). The results show that from 2002 to 2012, the indirect carbon emissions from rural and urban household consumption in Beijing increased from 3131.81(104t CO2)in 2002 to 3857.67(104t CO2)in 2012 with an annual growth rate of 2.11%. Indirect carbon emissions from low, medium, and high income rural household groups decreased with the increase of income, while indirect emissions from low, medium, and high income urban household groups increased with the increase of income. The SDA results show that, the booming average consumption level was the most important driving force for the increase of indirect carbon emissions of household consumption in Beijing from 2002 to 2012;while the change of carbon emissions intensity was the major factor in restraining the increase of indirect carbon emissions, the impact of consumption structure and urbanization was limited. Policy implications about carbon reduction in Beijing are as follows:further reduce carbon emissions intensity of industries and optimize industrial structure, strictly control the population scale and improve the quality and level of urbanization, and optimize consumption structure based on the increase of income and encourage low carbon & green consumption.