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France: Inability to keep home adequately warm

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Country: France Indicator: Inability to keep home adequately warm Year: 2025

Country overview

France

Current reading for Inability to keep home adequately warm in a European context.

Eurostat indicator: Inability to keep home adequately warm

Latest value

11.50 Percent of people

European ranking

8 / 30

No change from the previous year

Compared with Europe

+3.5 puntos

France is 3.5 points above the European average.

EU: 8.02

Affected population

≈ 7.92 million people affected

Year: 2025

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Recent trend

Open trend

Latest: 11.50 Percent of people Europe benchmark: 8.02 Percent of people

Internal regions

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Indicator: Inability to keep home adequately warm

Granularity: Regions

  1. 1

    Nord-Pas de Calais

    +13.90

    13.10

  2. 2

    Corse

    +13.90

    13.10

  3. 3

    Auvergne

    +11.30

    12.80

  4. 4

    Champagne-Ardenne

    +9.60

    12.60

  5. 5

    Lorraine

    +8.70

    12.50

  6. 6

    Languedoc-Roussillon

    +7.80

    12.40

  7. 7

    Limousin

    +7.00

    12.30

  8. 8

    Midi-Pyrénées

    +5.20

    12.10

  9. 9

    Aquitaine

    +4.30

    12.00

  10. 10

    Bourgogne

    +1.70

    11.70

  11. 11

    Haute-Normandie

    -0.90

    11.40

  12. 12

    Picardie

    -0.90

    11.40

  13. 13

    Franche-Comté

    -1.70

    11.30

  14. 14

    Provence-Alpes-Côte dAzur

    -2.60

    11.20

  15. 15

    Poitou-Charentes

    -3.50

    11.10

  16. 16

    Basse-Normandie

    -3.50

    11.10

  17. 17

    Centre-Val de Loire

    -6.10

    10.80

  18. 18

    Pays de la Loire

    -6.10

    10.80

  19. 19

    Rhône-Alpes

    -7.00

    10.70

  20. 20

    Bretagne

    -7.00

    10.70

  21. 21

    Île de France

    -11.30

    10.20

  22. 22

    Alsace

    -11.30

    10.20

More context on this indicator

At a glance

France performs less favourably than the European benchmark on Inability to keep home adequately warm, with a moderate 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 France

In France, Cannot keep home warm is noticeably worse than the European benchmark: 11.5% versus 8.0% in 2025, with a gap of 3.5 percentage points.

Recent trend

In France, the medium-term pattern shows deterioration: the value moved from 6.70% in 2020 to 11.50% in 2025. The latest value changes little from 11.80% in 2024, indicating a pause in the previous deterioration.

Regional differences in France

In France, regional values for Cannot keep home warm are relatively close. Across 22 comparable regions, Nord-Pas de Calais records the highest value (13.1%) and Île de France the lowest (10.2%), a gap of 2.9 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.