European ranking
8 / 30
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 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
Embedded regional ranking preview with real regional values and shared semantic bars.
Indicator: Inability to keep home adequately warm
Granularity: Regions
Nord-Pas de Calais
13.10
Corse
13.10
Auvergne
12.80
Champagne-Ardenne
12.60
Lorraine
12.50
Languedoc-Roussillon
12.40
Limousin
12.30
Midi-Pyrénées
12.10
Aquitaine
12.00
Bourgogne
11.70
Haute-Normandie
11.40
Picardie
11.40
Franche-Comté
11.30
Provence-Alpes-Côte dAzur
11.20
Poitou-Charentes
11.10
Basse-Normandie
11.10
Centre-Val de Loire
10.80
Pays de la Loire
10.80
Rhône-Alpes
10.70
Bretagne
10.70
Île de France
10.20
Alsace
10.20
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.