European ranking
7 / 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
10.70 Percent of people
European ranking
7 / 23
No change from the previous year
Compared with Europe
+0.2 puntos
Finland is 0.2 points above the European average.
EU: 10.50
Affected population
≈ 0.60 million people affected
Year: 2025
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Indicator: Arrears on housing or utility bills
Granularity: Regions
Helsinki-Uusimaa
12.50
Pohjois- ja Itä-Suomi
10.10
Etelä-Suomi
9.50
Finland performs less favourably than the European benchmark on Arrears on housing or utility bills, although the difference is relatively small. The trend context points to recent departure from stability. The wider topic context is mixed, combining pressure signals and relative strengths. Regional evidence also shows internal variation.
In Finland, Arrears on bills is close to the European benchmark, although slightly worse: 10.7% versus 10.5% in 2025, a gap of 0.2 percentage points.
In Finland, the medium-term pattern is broadly stable: the value moved from 10.00% in 2020 to 10.70% in 2025. The primary pattern was broadly stable, but the latest step, from 11.20% in 2024 to 10.70% in 2025, departs from that stability with an improvement.
In Finland, regional values for Arrears on bills are relatively close. Across 3 comparable regions, Helsinki-Uusimaa records the highest value (12.5%) and Etelä-Suomi the lowest (9.5%), a gap of 3 percentage points.
In Finland, Housing & Energy Stress shows a mixed picture: pressure signals and relative strengths coexist across this indicator and its related indicators compared with Europe. Recent changes among related indicators are also mixed, with improvement in some and deterioration in others.