The resilience of families is now on the edge of crisis. Every day that passes, the number of people who end up in the meat grinder of budgets that never come back grows. And the use of consumer credit, from an occasional choice, is becoming a collective phenomenon. The daily effort of keeping income, consumption and unexpected events together translates into those 7,060 euros which represent the average consumer debt of a Calabrian family in 2025, according to the elaboration of the CGIA Research Office. A figure higher than the Italian average, which stands at 6,657 euros, and which comes as the credit granted to consumers continues to expand.
In Calabria, the overall exposure for consumer credit went from 5.534 billion euros in 2024 to 5.810 billion in 2025: 275.9 million more, equal to a growth of 5%. Behind the figures that continue to inflate the indebtedness of Calabrians there are cars to buy, appliances to replace, unexpected expenses to face, but also family budgets which, more and more often, are no longer able to support the cost of living with income alone.
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