EU 10.47
· European ranking
13 / 23
Down 2 positions compared with previous year
Norway: Housing & Utility Bill Arrears
An editorial snapshot of country living conditions with trend, regional spread, and context links.
Latest value
· 2025
7.50% of people
EU 10.47 · -3.0 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
Explore this indicator
Regional map
· 2025 · 6 regions
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Internal regions
Comparison of values across the country's regions for this indicator.
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1+58.67
11.90
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2+6.67
8.00
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3-2.67
7.30
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4-4.00
7.20
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5-28.00
5.40
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6-34.67
4.90
More context on this indicator
At a glance
Norway performs more favourably than the European benchmark on Arrears on housing or utility bills, with a moderate gap. The trend context points to recent reversal. The wider topic context is mixed, combining pressure signals and relative strengths. Regional evidence also shows internal variation.
European comparison in Norway
In Norway, Arrears on bills is noticeably better than the European benchmark: 7.5% versus 10.5% in 2025, with a gap of 3.0 percentage points.
Recent trend
In Norway, the medium-term pattern shows deterioration: the value moved from 6.00% in 2020 to 7.50% in 2025. The latest step, from 8.10% in 2024 to 7.50% in 2025, reverses the previous direction and shows recent improvement.
Regional differences in Norway
In Norway, Arrears on bills shows noticeable regional variation. Across 6 comparable regions, Innlandet records the highest value (11.9%) and Trøndelag the lowest (4.9%), a gap of 7 percentage points.
Reading within the topic
In Norway, 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.