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Greece: Arrears on housing or utility bills

An editorial snapshot of country living conditions with trend, regional spread, and context links.

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

Country overview

Greece

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

Eurostat indicator: Arrears on housing or utility bills

Latest value

41.80 Percent of people

European ranking

1 / 23

No change from the previous year

Compared with Europe

+31.3 puntos

Greece is 31.3 points above the European average.

EU: 10.50

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Recent trend

Open trend

Latest: 41.80 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

    Ionia Nisia

    +58.60

    66.30

  2. 2

    Dytiki Ellada

    +21.30

    50.70

  3. 3

    Notio Aigaio

    +13.20

    47.30

  4. 4

    Thessalia

    +12.20

    46.90

  5. 5

    Anatoliki Makedonia, Thraki

    +10.80

    46.30

  6. 6

    Peloponnisos

    +10.00

    46.00

  7. 7

    Sterea Ellada

    +4.10

    43.50

  8. 8

    Kriti

    +3.80

    43.40

  9. 9

    Kentriki Makedonia

    -1.70

    41.10

  10. 10

    Dytiki Makedonia

    -4.50

    39.90

  11. 11

    Voreio Aigaio

    -9.10

    38.00

  12. 12

    Attiki

    -10.30

    37.50

  13. 13

    Ipeiros

    -21.80

    32.70

More context on this indicator

At a glance

Greece performs less favourably than the European benchmark on Arrears on housing or utility bills, with a large gap. The trend context points to recent reversal. The wider topic context points to broader pressure. Regional evidence also shows internal variation.

European comparison in Greece

In Greece, Arrears on bills stands clearly worse than the European benchmark: 41.8% versus 10.5% in 2025, a large gap of 31.3 percentage points.

Recent trend

In Greece, the medium-term pattern shows deterioration: the value moved from 36.90% in 2020 to 41.80% in 2025. The latest step, from 42.80% in 2024 to 41.80% in 2025, reverses the previous direction and shows recent improvement.

Regional differences in Greece

In Greece, Arrears on bills shows noticeable regional variation. Across 13 comparable regions, Ionia Nisia records the highest value (66.3%) and Ipeiros the lowest (32.7%), a gap of 33.6 percentage points.

Reading within the topic

In Greece, the evidence for Housing & Energy Stress leans towards pressure compared with Europe; related indicators do not provide a sufficiently strong counter-signal. Recent changes among related indicators are also mixed, with improvement in some and deterioration in others.