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Ireland: Energy Poverty / Cold Homes

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

Ireland

Latest value

· 2025

4.50% of people

EU 8.02 · -3.5 pp vs Europe

European ranking

18 / 30

Recent trend

Open trend

Population

5.4M

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 · 3 regions

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Internal regions

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

  1. 1

    Southern Ireland

    +13.33

    5.10

  2. 2

    Eastern and Midland Ireland

    -6.67

    4.20

  3. 3

    Northern and Western Ireland

    -8.89

    4.10

More context on this indicator

At a glance

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

European comparison in Ireland

In Ireland, Cannot keep home warm is noticeably better than the European benchmark: 4.5% versus 8.0% in 2025, with a gap of 3.5 percentage points.

Recent trend

In Ireland, the medium-term pattern is broadly stable: the value moved from 3.60% in 2020 to 4.50% in 2025. The primary pattern was broadly stable, but the latest step, from 4.90% in 2024 to 4.50% in 2025, departs from that stability with an improvement.

Regional differences in Ireland

In Ireland, regional values for Cannot keep home warm are relatively close. Across 3 comparable regions, Southern Ireland records the highest value (5.1%) and Northern and Western Ireland the lowest (4.1%), a gap of 1 percentage points.

Reading within the topic

In Ireland, 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 deterioration and warrant monitoring.