National Enforcement Authority Finland carried out 5,400 evictions last year, or about 10 percent more than in 2023, according to newsgroup Uutissuomalainen (USU).
Looking at longer-term figures, it reported that the number of evictions the authority has carried out since 2015 had increased by 55 percent.
The main reason behind the evictions was late rent payments, the authority's basic enforcement unit chief, Veikko Minkkinen, told USU. He noted that increasing financial problems in Finland are behind the phenomenon.
"Ordinary people are beginning to have difficulty coping with their finances," he said, noting that there is a growing group of households "that have not previously been the target of evictions".
One-third of the evictions carried out in Finland were in the capital region — Helsinki, Espoo and Vantaa.
The number of evictions increased slightly more than the national average in Jyväskylä, Lahti and Kuopio, according to the newsgroup.
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