European ranking
22 / 23
No change from the previous year
Netherlands: Arrears on housing or utility bills
An editorial snapshot of country living conditions with trend, regional spread, and context links.
Country overview
Netherlands
Current reading for Arrears on housing or utility bills in a European context.
Eurostat indicator: Arrears on housing or utility bills
Latest value
3.50 Percent of people
Compared with Europe
-7.0 puntos
Netherlands is 7.0 points below the European average.
EU: 10.47
Affected population
≈ 0.63 million people affected
Year: 2025
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Indicator: Arrears on housing or utility bills
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At a glance
Netherlands performs more favourably than the European benchmark on Arrears on housing or utility bills, with a large gap. The trend context points to recent departure from stability. The wider topic context is mixed, combining pressure signals and relative strengths.
European comparison in Netherlands
In Netherlands, Arrears on bills stands clearly better than the European benchmark: 3.5% versus 10.5% in 2025, a large gap of 7.0 percentage points.
Recent trend
In the Netherlands, the medium-term pattern is broadly stable: the value moved from 3.20% in 2020 to 3.50% in 2025. The primary pattern was broadly stable, but the latest step, from 3.90% in 2024 to 3.50% in 2025, departs from that stability with an improvement.
Reading within the topic
In Netherlands, 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.