Nearly half of people experience social nuisance in their neighborhood, especially from loitering youths

Nearly half of people aged 15 and over experienced social nuisance in their neighborhood in 2025. That was 46 percent. In 2021, it was 42 percent.

Social nuisance includes, for example, groups of young people on the streets, noisy neighbors, people who are drunk or use drugs in public, and disputes between neighbors. Most of the nuisance is caused by young people loitering in the neighborhood. In 2025, 26 percent of people said they were troubled by this.

In 2021, that was 22 percent. As many as 7 percent consider it a serious nuisance. In 2021, that figure was still 6 percent.

People also report nuisance caused by neighbors; 20 percent say this. Nuisance caused by people being harassed in the street is mentioned least often, by 7 percent. More people—14 percent—said they experienced a great deal of social nuisance in their neighborhood in 2025 than in 2021, when the figure was 12 percent.

Most of the nuisance is caused by young people, intoxicated people, confused people, drug use, and people being harassed in the street. The problem is worse in large cities. In highly urbanized municipalities, 11 percent of people complain about serious nuisance caused by loitering youths.

That is almost four times as much as in villages. Other types of nuisance, such as that caused by intoxicated or confused people, also occur more often in cities. For example, 7 percent of city residents say they experience a great deal of nuisance from confused people in the street.

In villages, that is approximately 1 percent. In 2025, more people in both cities and villages experienced social nuisance than in previous years. The police record some of these problems.

The number of reports concerning confused people, in particular, has increased in recent years. In 2021, there were 130,000 reports. In 2025, there were nearly 170,000 reports.