A selection of Debt Statistics from www.creditaction.org.uk released in December 2012.
October 2012
- £5,934 average household debt (excluding mortgages) (Oct 2005 = £7,749)
- £53,912 average household debt (including mortgages) (Oct 2005 = £46,085)
- £111,592 estimated average outstanding mortgage for the 11.3m households that carry mortgage debt
- £166 million Daily amount of interest paid on personal debt in October 2012
- £1.421 trillion Outstanding personal debt (£1.406 trillion at October 2011)
- £1.264 trillion Outstanding mortgage lending (£1.243 trillion at October 2011)
September 2012
- 1,399 people: made redundant every day between July and September 2012
- 894,000 people: Unemployed for over a year between July and September 2012
- £1.362 billion: Daily value of all plastic card purchases made in September 2012
June 2012
- 8,465 new debt problems dealt with by the CAB each working day over the year to June 2012
Other
- £11.38 of loans are written-off daily by UK Banks and Building Societies
- Every 16 min 4 sec a property is repossessed
- Every 4 min 42 sec someone will be declared insolvent or bankrupt
Source: www.creditaction.org.uk
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