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Czechia: Energy Poverty / Cold Homes

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

Czechia

Latest value

· 2025

4.10% of people

EU 8.02 · -3.9 pp vs Europe

European ranking

23 / 30

Down 6 positions compared with previous year

Recent trend

Open trend

Population

10.9M

Country population · 2025

What this indicator measures

Measures the share of people living in households that cannot afford to keep their home adequately warm.

Lower values generally represent a more favorable situation.

Data source: Eurostat Inability to keep home adequately warm ilc_mdes01

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Regional map

· 2025 · 8 regions

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Internal regions

Comparison of values across the country's regions for this indicator.

  1. 1

    Severozápad

    +48.78

    6.10

  2. 2

    Moravskoslezsko

    +21.95

    5.00

  3. 3

    Střední Čechy

    +14.63

    4.70

  4. 4

    Střední Morava

    +7.32

    4.40

  5. 5

    Severovýchod

    -4.88

    3.90

  6. 6

    Praha

    -14.63

    3.50

  7. 7

    Jihovýchod

    -21.95

    3.20

  8. 8

    Jihozápad

    -43.90

    2.30

More context on this indicator

At a glance

Czechia performs more favourably than the European benchmark on Inability to keep home adequately warm, with a moderate gap. The trend context points to recent reversal. The wider topic context is mixed, combining pressure signals and relative strengths. Regional evidence also shows internal variation.

European comparison in Czechia

In Czechia, Cannot keep home warm is noticeably better than the European benchmark: 4.1% versus 8.0% in 2025, with a gap of 3.9 percentage points.

Recent trend

In Czechia, the medium-term pattern shows deterioration: the value moved from 2.20% in 2020 to 4.10% in 2025. The latest step, from 4.90% in 2024 to 4.10% in 2025, reverses the previous direction and shows recent improvement.

Regional differences in Czechia

In Czechia, Cannot keep home warm shows noticeable regional variation. Across 8 comparable regions, Severozápad records the highest value (6.1%) and Jihozápad the lowest (2.3%), a gap of 3.8 percentage points.

Reading within the topic

In Czechia, 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 improvement.