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Belgium: Arrears on housing or utility bills

An editorial snapshot of country living conditions with trend, regional spread, and context links.

Country: Belgium Indicator: Arrears on housing or utility bills Year: 2025

Country overview

Belgium

Current reading for Arrears on housing or utility bills in a European context.

Eurostat indicator: Arrears on housing or utility bills

Latest value

5.10 Percent of people

European ranking

20 / 23

No change from the previous year

Compared with Europe

-5.4 puntos

Belgium is 5.4 points below the European average.

EU: 10.50

Affected population

≈ 0.61 million people affected

Year: 2025

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Recent trend

Open trend

Latest: 5.10 Percent of people Europe benchmark: 10.47 Percent of people

Internal regions

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Indicator: Arrears on housing or utility bills

Granularity: Regions

  1. 1

    Prov. Hainaut

    +194.10

    15.00

  2. 2

    Région de Bruxelles-Capitale / Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest

    +45.10

    7.40

  3. 3

    Prov. Liège

    +25.50

    6.40

  4. 4

    Prov. Namur

    +11.80

    5.70

  5. 5

    Prov. Brabant Wallon

    -11.80

    4.50

  6. 6

    Prov. Luxembourg (BE)

    -23.50

    3.90

  7. 7

    Prov. Oost-Vlaanderen

    -33.30

    3.40

  8. 8

    Prov. Antwerpen

    -49.00

    2.60

  9. 9

    Prov. Limburg (BE)

    -56.90

    2.20

  10. 10

    Prov. Vlaams-Brabant

    -60.80

    2.00

  11. 11

    Prov. West-Vlaanderen

    -62.70

    1.90

More context on this indicator

At a glance

Belgium performs more favourably than the European benchmark on Arrears on housing or utility bills, with a large gap. The trend context points to recent stabilization. The wider topic context is mixed, combining pressure signals and relative strengths. Regional evidence also shows internal variation.

European comparison in Belgium

In Belgium, Arrears on bills stands clearly better than the European benchmark: 5.1% versus 10.5% in 2025, a large gap of 5.4 percentage points.

Recent trend

In Belgium, the medium-term pattern is broadly stable: the value moved from 5.60% in 2020 to 5.10% in 2025. The latest value also changes little from 5.00% in 2024, so the recent reading remains stable.

Regional differences in Belgium

In Belgium, regional differences in Arrears on bills are pronounced. Across 11 comparable regions, Prov. Hainaut records the highest value (15%) and Prov. West-Vlaanderen the lowest (1.9%), a gap of 13.1 percentage points.

Reading within the topic

In Belgium, Housing & Energy Stress shows a mixed picture: pressure signals and relative strengths coexist across this indicator and its related indicators compared with Europe. Material recent changes among related indicators lean towards improvement.