HELSINKI: Average housing loans of household-dwelling units with housing loans in 2002 to 2014, in 2014 money. Source: Indebtedness 2014. Statistics Finland.
The average size of housing loan per household-dwelling unit decreased in real terms by EUR 230 in 2014 compared with the year before. The average size of housing loan per household-dwelling unit was EUR 94,400 in 2014, according to Statistics Finland’s statistics on indebtedness. The average size of housing loan was largest in Greater Helsinki, EUR 126,500 and smallest in Northern and Eastern Finland, EUR 79,200, the data show.
In the Greater Helsinki region, housing loans grew by close on one per cent and in Åland by 1.6 per cent. But the average size of housing loans decreased slightly from the previous year elsewhere in the country. In 2014, there were 1,380,400 household-dwelling units in Finland that had debt.