Housing cost overburden rate in European Union

7.6% of people in the European Union spent more than 40% of their disposable income on housing in 2025. The value for 2025 is the lowest in the series, which starts in 2010.

Measure: Housing cost overburden rate Unit: % of population Data: 2010 to 2025 Source: Eurostat
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 7.6% % of population
Change from 2024 −0.6percentage points 2024: 8.2%

Housing cost overburden 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.

Housing cost overburden rate (% of population), 2010 to 2025
Period European Union
2025 7.6%
2024 8.2%
2023 8.8%
2022 8.7%
2021 8.7%
2020 7.8%
2019 9.4%
2018 9.6%e (estimated)
2017 10.1%e (estimated)
2016 10.9%e (estimated)
2015 11.2%e (estimated)
2014 11.5%e (estimated)
2013 11.6%
2012 11.5%
2011 10.6%
2010 10.0%

Flags: e estimated . A dash means no value was published.

In short

  • That is a change of −0.6 percentage points from 8.2% in 2024.
  • Since 2015, when it was 11.2%, the figure has changed by −3.6 percentage points.

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Eurostat
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Eurostat, the statistical office of the European Union
Dataset or series code
ilc_lvho07a · dataset details · view at source
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freq=A unit=PC rskpovth=TOTAL age=TOTAL sex=T
Observation period
2010 to 2025 for European Union
Provider update
29 October 2026
Retrieved
9 November 2026
Published here
9 November 2026
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Attribution
Source: Eurostat