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Romania: Housing & Utility Bill Arrears

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

Romania

Latest value

· 2025

18.50% of people

EU 10.47 · +8.0 pp vs Europe

European ranking

3 / 23

Up 1 positions compared with previous year

Recent trend

Open trend

Population

19.0M

Country population · 2025

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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· 2025 · 8 regions

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Internal regions

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

  1. 1

    Sud-Est

    +72.97

    32.00

  2. 2

    Sud-Vest Oltenia

    +17.84

    21.80

  3. 3

    Sud-Muntenia

    +1.62

    18.80

  4. 4

    Nord-Est

    -9.19

    16.80

  5. 5

    Bucureşti-Ilfov

    -11.89

    16.30

  6. 6

    Nord-Vest

    -13.51

    16.00

  7. 6

    Centru

    -13.51

    16.00

  8. 8

    Vest

    -47.03

    9.80

More context on this indicator

At a glance

Romania performs less favourably than the European benchmark on Arrears on housing or utility bills, with a large gap. The trend context points to confirmed deterioration. The wider topic context is mixed, combining pressure signals and relative strengths. Regional evidence also shows internal variation.

European comparison in Romania

In Romania, Arrears on bills stands clearly worse than the European benchmark: 18.5% versus 10.5% in 2025, a large gap of 8.0 percentage points.

Recent trend

In Romania, the medium-term pattern shows deterioration: the value moved from 14.80% in 2020 to 18.50% in 2025. The latest step, from 15.30% in 2024 to 18.50% in 2025, confirms the deterioration. The recent signal is stronger than the primary one.

Regional differences in Romania

In Romania, regional differences in Arrears on bills are pronounced. Across 8 comparable regions, Sud-Est records the highest value (32%) and Vest the lowest (9.8%), a gap of 22.2 percentage points.

Reading within the topic

In Romania, 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.