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France: Arrears on housing or utility bills

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

Country overview

France

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

Eurostat indicator: Arrears on housing or utility bills

Latest value

10.40 Percent of people

European ranking

8 / 23

No change from the previous year

Compared with Europe

-0.1 puntos

France is 0.1 points below the European average.

EU: 10.50

Affected population

≈ 7.16 million people affected

Year: 2025

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Recent trend

Open trend

Latest: 10.40 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

    Guyane

    +179.80

    29.10

  2. 2

    La Réunion

    +78.80

    18.60

  3. 3

    Guadeloupe

    +48.10

    15.40

  4. 4

    Corse

    +35.60

    14.10

  5. 5

    Martinique

    +27.90

    13.30

  6. 6

    Nord-Pas de Calais

    +26.00

    13.10

  7. 7

    Champagne-Ardenne

    +11.50

    11.60

  8. 8

    Île de France

    +11.50

    11.60

  9. 9

    Languedoc-Roussillon

    +5.80

    11.00

  10. 10

    Provence-Alpes-Côte dAzur

    +3.80

    10.80

  11. 11

    Lorraine

    +2.90

    10.70

  12. 12

    Picardie

    —

    10.40

  13. 13

    Bourgogne

    -2.90

    10.10

  14. 14

    Auvergne

    -4.80

    9.90

  15. 15

    Franche-Comté

    -4.80

    9.90

  16. 16

    Midi-Pyrénées

    -8.70

    9.50

  17. 17

    Haute-Normandie

    -8.70

    9.50

  18. 18

    Aquitaine

    -9.60

    9.40

  19. 19

    Alsace

    -10.60

    9.30

  20. 20

    Rhône-Alpes

    -12.50

    9.10

  21. 21

    Limousin

    -12.50

    9.10

  22. 22

    Poitou-Charentes

    -13.50

    9.00

  23. 23

    Pays de la Loire

    -14.40

    8.90

  24. 24

    Basse-Normandie

    -16.30

    8.70

  25. 25

    Bretagne

    -20.20

    8.30

More context on this indicator

At a glance

France performs more favourably than the European benchmark on Arrears on housing or utility bills, although the difference is relatively small. 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 France

In France, Arrears on bills is close to the European benchmark and slightly better: 10.4% versus 10.5% in 2025, a gap of 0.1 percentage points.

Recent trend

In France, the medium-term pattern shows deterioration: the value moved from 9.10% in 2020 to 10.40% in 2025. The latest value changes little from 10.60% in 2024, indicating a pause in the previous deterioration.

Regional differences in France

In France, regional differences in Arrears on bills are pronounced. Across 26 comparable regions, Guyane records the highest value (29.1%) and Centre-Val de Loire the lowest (8.2%), a gap of 20.9 percentage points.

Reading within the topic

In France, 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.