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Hungary: Arrears on housing or utility bills

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

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

Country overview

Hungary

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

Eurostat indicator: Arrears on housing or utility bills

Latest value

8.60 Percent of people

European ranking

9 / 23

Worsened by 1 positions since the previous year

Compared with Europe

-1.9 puntos

Hungary is 1.9 points below the European average.

EU: 10.50

Affected population

≈ 0.82 million people affected

Year: 2025

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Recent trend

Open trend

Latest: 8.60 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

    Észak-Magyarország

    +102.30

    17.40

  2. 2

    Észak-Alföld

    +36.00

    11.70

  3. 3

    Dél-Dunántúl

    +32.60

    11.40

  4. 4

    Dél-Alföld

    +27.90

    11.00

  5. 5

    Pest

    -24.40

    6.50

  6. 6

    Nyugat-Dunántúl

    -31.40

    5.90

  7. 7

    Budapest

    -50.00

    4.30

  8. 8

    Közép-Dunántúl

    -74.40

    2.20

More context on this indicator

At a glance

Hungary performs more favourably than the European benchmark on Arrears on housing or utility bills, with a moderate gap. The trend context points to confirmed improvement. The wider topic context is mixed, combining pressure signals and relative strengths. Regional evidence also shows internal variation.

European comparison in Hungary

In Hungary, Arrears on bills is noticeably better than the European benchmark: 8.6% versus 10.5% in 2025, with a gap of 1.9 percentage points.

Recent trend

In Hungary, the medium-term pattern shows improvement: the value moved from 11.50% in 2020 to 8.60% in 2025. The latest step, from 9.30% in 2024 to 8.60% in 2025, confirms the improvement. The recent signal has similar intensity to the primary one.

Regional differences in Hungary

In Hungary, regional differences in Arrears on bills are pronounced. Across 8 comparable regions, Észak-Magyarország records the highest value (17.4%) and Közép-Dunántúl the lowest (2.2%), a gap of 15.2 percentage points.

Reading within the topic

In Hungary, 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.