European ranking
23 / 23
No change from the previous year
An editorial snapshot of country living conditions with trend, regional spread, and context links.
Country overview
Current reading for Arrears on housing or utility bills in a European context.
Eurostat indicator: Arrears on housing or utility bills
Latest value
3.30 Percent of people
European ranking
23 / 23
No change from the previous year
Compared with Europe
-7.2 puntos
Czechia is 7.2 points below the European average.
EU: 10.50
Affected population
≈ 0.36 million people affected
Year: 2025
Embedded regional ranking preview with real regional values and shared semantic bars.
Indicator: Arrears on housing or utility bills
Granularity: Regions
Severovýchod
5.60
Severozápad
4.10
Moravskoslezsko
3.90
Střední Čechy
3.50
Střední Morava
3.10
Jihozápad
2.20
Jihovýchod
2.20
Praha
1.80
Czechia 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.
In Czechia, Arrears on bills stands clearly better than the European benchmark: 3.3% versus 10.5% in 2025, a large gap of 7.2 percentage points.
In Czechia, the medium-term pattern is broadly stable: the value moved from 3.00% in 2020 to 3.30% in 2025. The latest value also changes little from 3.40% in 2024, so the recent reading remains stable.
In Czechia, regional differences in Arrears on bills are pronounced. Across 8 comparable regions, Severovýchod records the highest value (5.6%) and Praha the lowest (1.8%), a gap of 3.8 percentage points.
In Czechia, 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.