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Italy: Arrears on housing or utility bills

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

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

Country overview

Italy

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

Eurostat indicator: Arrears on housing or utility bills

Latest value

6.80 Percent of people

European ranking

15 / 23

Worsened by 4 positions since the previous year

Compared with Europe

-3.7 puntos

Italy is 3.7 points below the European average.

EU: 10.50

Affected population

≈ 4.01 million people affected

Year: 2025

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Recent trend

Open trend

Latest: 6.80 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

    Sicilia

    +58.80

    10.80

  2. 2

    Toscana

    +51.50

    10.30

  3. 3

    Campania

    +41.20

    9.60

  4. 4

    Basilicata

    +26.50

    8.60

  5. 5

    Calabria

    +17.60

    8.00

  6. 6

    Lombardia

    +14.70

    7.80

  7. 7

    Puglia

    +8.80

    7.40

  8. 8

    Abruzzo

    +2.90

    7.00

  9. 9

    Lazio

    -5.90

    6.40

  10. 10

    Piemonte

    -7.40

    6.30

  11. 11

    Liguria

    -27.90

    4.90

  12. 12

    Marche

    -29.40

    4.80

  13. 13

    Sardegna

    -32.40

    4.60

  14. 14

    Molise

    -36.80

    4.30

  15. 15

    Umbria

    -44.10

    3.80

  16. 16

    Emilia-Romagna

    -45.60

    3.70

  17. 17

    Veneto

    -50.00

    3.40

  18. 18

    Valle dAosta / Vallée dAoste

    -58.80

    2.80

  19. 19

    Provincia Autonoma di Bolzano / Bozen

    -60.30

    2.70

  20. 20

    Friuli-Venezia Giulia

    -85.30

    1.00

  21. 21

    Provincia Autonoma di Trento

    -91.20

    0.60

More context on this indicator

At a glance

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

European comparison in Italy

In Italy, Arrears on bills is noticeably better than the European benchmark: 6.8% versus 10.5% in 2025, with a gap of 3.7 percentage points.

Recent trend

In Italy, the medium-term pattern is broadly stable: the value moved from 6.80% in 2020 to 6.80% in 2025. The primary pattern was broadly stable, but the latest step, from 5.30% in 2024 to 6.80% in 2025, departs from that stability with a deterioration.

Regional differences in Italy

In Italy, regional differences in Arrears on bills are pronounced. Across 21 comparable regions, Sicilia records the highest value (10.8%) and Provincia Autonoma di Trento the lowest (0.6%), a gap of 10.2 percentage points.

Reading within the topic

In Italy, Housing & Energy Stress shows a mixed picture: pressure signals and relative strengths coexist across this indicator and its related indicators compared with Europe. Material recent changes among related indicators lean towards deterioration and warrant monitoring.