Home ownership rate in European Union
68.5% of people in the European Union lived in a home owned by their household in 2025.
European Union is a group: European Union, 27 member states (composition from February 2020). The value is the aggregate published by Eurostat, not an average calculated on this site.
European Union, 2025
68.5%
Change from 2024
+0.1percentage points
Home ownership rate in European Union over time
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% of population. Source: Eurostat. Gaps mean no published value; points are not joined across missing years.
| Period | European Union |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 68.5% |
| 2024 | 68.4% |
| 2023 | 69.1% |
| 2022 | 69.1% |
| 2021 | 69.8% |
| 2020 | 70.0% |
| 2019 | 69.8% |
| 2018 | 69.9%e (estimated) |
| 2017 | 70.0%e (estimated) |
| 2016 | 70.1%e (estimated) |
| 2015 | 70.2%e (estimated) |
| 2014 | 70.7%e (estimated) |
| 2013 | 70.7%e (estimated) |
| 2012 | 71.0%e (estimated) |
| 2011 | 70.8%e (estimated) |
| 2010 | 70.7%e (estimated) |
Flags: e estimated . A dash means no value was published.
In short
- That is a change of +0.1 percentage points from 68.4% in 2024.
- Since 2015, when it was 70.2%, the figure has changed by −1.7 percentage points.
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