EU 10.47
· European ranking
22 / 23
No change compared with previous year
Netherlands: Housing & Utility Bill Arrears
An editorial snapshot of country living conditions with trend, regional spread, and context links.
Latest value
· 2025
3.50% of people
EU 10.47 · -7.0 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
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At a glance
Netherlands performs more favourably than the European benchmark on Arrears on housing or utility bills, with a large gap. The trend context points to recent departure from stability. The wider topic context is mixed, combining pressure signals and relative strengths.
European comparison in Netherlands
In Netherlands, Arrears on bills stands clearly better than the European benchmark: 3.5% versus 10.5% in 2025, a large gap of 7.0 percentage points.
Recent trend
In the Netherlands, the medium-term pattern is broadly stable: the value moved from 3.20% in 2020 to 3.50% in 2025. The primary pattern was broadly stable, but the latest step, from 3.90% in 2024 to 3.50% in 2025, departs from that stability with an improvement.
Reading within the topic
In Netherlands, 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.