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Hungary: Energy Poverty / Cold Homes

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

Hungary

Latest value

· 2025

5.80% of people

EU 8.02 · -2.2 pp vs Europe

European ranking

15 / 30

Up 1 positions compared with previous year

Recent trend

Open trend

Population

9.5M

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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· 2025 · 8 regions

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Internal regions

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

  1. 1

    Észak-Magyarország

    +118.97

    12.70

  2. 2

    Észak-Alföld

    +62.07

    9.40

  3. 3

    Dél-Alföld

    +17.24

    6.80

  4. 4

    Dél-Dunántúl

    +15.52

    6.70

  5. 5

    Budapest

    -29.31

    4.10

  6. 6

    Nyugat-Dunántúl

    -48.28

    3.00

  7. 7

    Pest

    -56.90

    2.50

  8. 8

    Közép-Dunántúl

    -75.86

    1.40

More context on this indicator

At a glance

Hungary performs more 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 Hungary

In Hungary, Cannot keep home warm is noticeably better than the European benchmark: 5.8% versus 8.0% in 2025, with a gap of 2.2 percentage points.

Recent trend

In Hungary, the medium-term pattern shows deterioration: the value moved from 4.10% in 2020 to 5.80% in 2025. The latest value changes little from 6.00% in 2024, indicating a pause in the previous deterioration.

Regional differences in Hungary

In Hungary, regional differences in Cannot keep home warm are pronounced. Across 8 comparable regions, Észak-Magyarország records the highest value (12.7%) and Közép-Dunántúl the lowest (1.4%), a gap of 11.3 percentage points.

Reading within the topic

In Hungary, 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.