EU 8.02
· European ranking
27 / 30
No change compared with previous year
Poland: Energy Poverty / Cold Homes
An editorial snapshot of country living conditions with trend, regional spread, and context links.
Latest value
· 2025
3.20% of people
EU 8.02 · -4.8 pp vs Europe
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 · 17 regions
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Internal regions
Comparison of values across the country's regions for this indicator.
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1+65.62
5.30
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2+59.38
5.10
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2+59.38
5.10
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4+50.00
4.80
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5+34.38
4.30
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6+31.25
4.20
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7+28.12
4.10
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8+18.75
3.80
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9+15.62
3.70
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10-3.12
3.10
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11-6.25
3.00
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12-9.38
2.90
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13-12.50
2.80
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14-21.88
2.50
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14-21.88
2.50
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16-31.25
2.20
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17-43.75
1.80
More context on this indicator
At a glance
Poland 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 Poland
In Poland, Cannot keep home warm is noticeably better than the European benchmark: 3.2% versus 8.0% in 2025, with a gap of 4.8 percentage points.
Recent trend
In Poland, the medium-term pattern is broadly stable: the value moved from 3.20% in 2020 to 3.20% in 2025. The latest value also changes little from 3.30% in 2024, so the recent reading remains stable.
Regional differences in Poland
In Poland, regional differences in Cannot keep home warm are pronounced. Across 17 comparable regions, Świętokrzyskie records the highest value (5.3%) and Warszawski stołeczny the lowest (1.8%), a gap of 3.5 percentage points.
Reading within the topic
In Poland, 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.