ES EN

France: Energy Poverty / Cold Homes

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

Latest value

· 2025

11.50% of people

EU 8.02 · +3.5 pp vs Europe

European ranking

8 / 30

No change compared with previous year

Population

68.9M

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

Explore this indicator

Regional map

· 2025 · 22 regions

Open map
Loading map preview...

Internal regions

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

  1. 1
    +13.91

    13.10

  2. 1

    Corse

    +13.91

    13.10

  3. 3
    +11.30

    12.80

  4. 4
    +9.57

    12.60

  5. 5
    +8.70

    12.50

  6. 6
    +7.83

    12.40

  7. 7
    +6.96

    12.30

  8. 8
    +5.22

    12.10

  9. 9
    +4.35

    12.00

  10. 10
    +1.74

    11.70

  11. 11
    -0.87

    11.40

  12. 11
    -0.87

    11.40

  13. 13
    -1.74

    11.30

  14. 14
    -2.61

    11.20

  15. 15
    -3.48

    11.10

  16. 15
    -3.48

    11.10

  17. 17
    -6.09

    10.80

  18. 17
    -6.09

    10.80

  19. 19
    -6.96

    10.70

  20. 19
    -6.96

    10.70

  21. 21
    -11.30

    10.20

  22. 21

    Alsace

    -11.30

    10.20

More context on this indicator

At a glance

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

European comparison in France

In France, Cannot keep home warm is noticeably worse than the European benchmark: 11.5% versus 8.0% in 2025, with a gap of 3.5 percentage points.

Recent trend

In France, the medium-term pattern shows deterioration: the value moved from 6.70% in 2020 to 11.50% in 2025. The latest value changes little from 11.80% in 2024, indicating a pause in the previous deterioration.

Regional differences in France

In France, regional values for Cannot keep home warm are relatively close. Across 22 comparable regions, Nord-Pas de Calais records the highest value (13.1%) and Île de France the lowest (10.2%), a gap of 2.9 percentage points.

Reading within the topic

In France, 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.