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UK Personal Debt Statistics - August 2016

The latest UK personal debt statistics from the Money Charity can be found below..

UK personal debt statistics May 2016

Amount Owed:

People in the UK owed £1.484 TRILLION at the end of June 2016. This figure is up from £1.444 TRILLION at the end of June 2015 – an extra £777.90 per UK adult.

Average Borrowing:

The average total debt per household – including mortgages – was £54,952 in June.

That's an average debt per adult of £29,379 – which is about 112.2% of average earnings.

Consumer Credit Levels

Outstanding consumer credit lending was £186 BILLION at the end of June 2016.

This is up from £176.1 BILLION at the end of Juneh 2015, and is an increase of £195.76 for every adult in UK.

This means average consumer credit borrowing per UK adult is now £3,683

Credit Card Borrowing

Total credit card debt in June 2016 was £65.2 BILLION. This is an average of £2,413 per household

This means at the average credit card interest rate it would take 25 years and 6 months to repay if you made the minimum repayments each month.

Debts Written Off By Banks

UK banks and buiding societies wrote off £624 MILLION of loans to individuals in the first quarter of 2016. That's roughly £6.9 MILLION a day.

CCJ's

2,102 consumer County Court Judgments (CCJS) are issued every day, with an average value of £2,030.

Number Of Personal Insolvencies

247 people a day are declared insolvent or bankrupt. This is equivalent to one person every 5 MINUTES 50 SECONDS.

Previous UK personal debt statistics from the Money Charity can be found here:

UK personal debt statistics May 2016

UK personal debt statistics March 2016

UK personal debt statistics January 2016


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