Last month, the total monthly cost of housing in the Pilsen Region averaged CZK 5,641 and increased by 6.9 percent year on year. Among the 14 regions, the region was the eighth. Compared to the Czech average, the cost of housing in the Pilsen Region was lower by 338 crowns. The highest monthly housing costs were incurred by Praguers (CZK 8,221) and residents of the Ústí Region (CZK 6,387), the lowest by Vysočina (CZK 4,827) and South Bohemia (CZK 5,110). The information was published today by the Pilsen branch of the Czech Statistical Office (CSO).
Monthly housing costs in the Pilsen region were a big burden for 13.6 percent of households, which was the ninth share among the regions. The highest burden was represented by these costs in the Pardubice Region (27.8 pct) and the Ústí Region (22.4 pct). On the contrary, the lowest share of households described housing expenditures as a major burden in the Karlovy Vary (11.1 pct) and Vysočina (11.5 pct) regions, the CZSO said.
The share of households from the Pilsen Region, which were very difficult to cope with their income, decreased by 1.7 percent year-on-year to 2.6 percent last year. The highest share of households based on their income was very difficult to record by statistics in the Pardubice Region (5.6 pct) and the Ústí Region (five pct). The average for the Czech Republic represented 3.3 percent of households and was 0.7 percentage points higher than in the Pilsen region.
In the Pilsen Region, statisticians recorded the lowest share of households, which stated that they were able to make ends meet with their income very easily, namely 1.6 percent, a year earlier it was 2.1 percent. On the contrary, the highest share of households that came out with their income very easily was in Prague (6.3 pct) and the Moravian-Silesian Region (5.2 pct). The average for the Czech Republic was 3.7 percent and was 2.1 percentage points higher than in the Pilsen Region.
At the end of last year, there were 248,038 households in the Pilsen Region, ie 5.6 percent of the total number in the Czech Republic. On average, there were 2.33 persons per household in the region, of which 1.1 were employed, 0.55 dependent children, 0.55 non-working pensioners and 0.03 unemployed.
The Czech Republic is one of the countries with the lowest level of risk of income poverty in Europe. It indicates the share of people in households whose annual net cash income is lower than the set limit (60 percent of the median disposable income in the Czech Republic). The Plzeň Region recorded the second lowest value of this indicator in the interregional comparison after Prague, while most households received a net monthly income per person between CZK 15,001 and 20,000, CSO stated.
In 2020, 992,600 people lived below the income poverty line in the Czech Republic. Year-on-year, the number decreased by 6.1 percent. 9.5 percent of Czechs were at risk of income poverty, ie less than every tenth population. The income poverty line in the Czech Republic reached an annual income of CZK 163,680 per person, which corresponds to a monthly income of CZK 13,640, which increased by CZK 822 year-on-year.
Source: CTK and CSO
