EU 10.47
· European ranking
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No change compared with previous year
Greece: Housing & Utility Bill Arrears
An editorial snapshot of country living conditions with trend, regional spread, and context links.
Latest value
· 2025
41.80% of people
EU 10.47 · +31.3 pp vs Europe
What this indicator measures
Measures the share of people living in households with arrears on mortgage or rent payments, utility bills, or hire-purchase instalments.
Lower values generally represent a more favorable situation.
Data source: Eurostat Arrears on housing or utility bills ILC_MDES05
Explore this indicator
Regional map
· 2025 · 13 regions
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Internal regions
Comparison of values across the country's regions for this indicator.
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1+58.61
66.30
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2+21.29
50.70
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3+13.16
47.30
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4+12.20
46.90
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5+10.77
46.30
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6+10.05
46.00
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7+4.07
43.50
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8+3.83
43.40
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9-1.67
41.10
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10-4.55
39.90
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11-9.09
38.00
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12-10.29
37.50
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13-21.77
32.70
More context on this indicator
At a glance
Greece performs less favourably than the European benchmark on Arrears on housing or utility bills, with a large gap. The trend context points to recent reversal. The wider topic context points to broader pressure. Regional evidence also shows internal variation.
European comparison in Greece
In Greece, Arrears on bills stands clearly worse than the European benchmark: 41.8% versus 10.5% in 2025, a large gap of 31.3 percentage points.
Recent trend
In Greece, the medium-term pattern shows deterioration: the value moved from 36.90% in 2020 to 41.80% in 2025. The latest step, from 42.80% in 2024 to 41.80% in 2025, reverses the previous direction and shows recent improvement.
Regional differences in Greece
In Greece, Arrears on bills shows noticeable regional variation. Across 13 comparable regions, Ionia Nisia records the highest value (66.3%) and Ipeiros the lowest (32.7%), a gap of 33.6 percentage points.
Reading within the topic
In Greece, the evidence for Housing & Energy Stress leans towards pressure compared with Europe; related indicators do not provide a sufficiently strong counter-signal. Recent changes among related indicators are also mixed, with improvement in some and deterioration in others.