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A pair of series

Cost and crowding

The 40% cost burden and overcrowding. Two SILC files.

Housing cost overburden is money; Overcrowding is rooms. Do not average them.

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Housing cost overburden

Share of people whose housing costs exceed 40% of disposable income. SILC.

The file

Share of people whose housing costs exceed 40% of disposable income. SILC, Eurostat.

The indicator

ilc_lvho07a, rskpovth TOTAL, age TOTAL, sex T. A percentage of people, not zloty.

What the numbers show

This is burden, not the price of a metre. Read with Price to income. The 40% rule stays in the citation.

Longseries, “Housing cost overburden”. Eurostat (ilc_lvho07a), 2003–2025, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Switzerland, Cyprus, Czechia, Germany, Denmark, Spain, Estonia, European Union, Finland, France, United Kingdom, Greece, Croatia, Hungary, Ireland, Iceland, Italy, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Latvia, Malta, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Sweden, Türkiye. Retrieved 2026-09-15. Eurostat reuse policy. https://longseries.com/en/d/eu-housing-overburden/

Latest values

Sorted by the latest published value. The rest of the file is under the fold.

33 places — sorted by latest value
CountryYearValue
Greece202526.4
Denmark202523.4
Switzerland202415.3
United Kingdom201815.1
Norway202513.5
Iceland202013.1
Germany202511.2
Sweden202510.8
The rest of the places (25)
Remaining 25 places
Türkiye202510.0
Estonia20258.8
Czechia20258.2
Luxembourg20258.1
European Union20257.7
Spain20257.2
Bulgaria20256.9
Belgium20256.7
Netherlands20256.5
France20256.4
Portugal20256.3
Austria20256.1
Malta20256.0
Lithuania20255.7
Latvia20255.7
Hungary20255.3
Ireland20255.3
Italy20255.0
Romania20255.0
Finland20254.7
Poland20254.1
Slovakia20253.5
Slovenia20253.5
Croatia20253.2
Cyprus20252.4

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2.96.610.314.017.720052012201820254.1
Poland

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We compute from the published level in the selected years. Nothing is invented — CAGR and Δ are functions of those rows.

Poland

Housing cost overburden

16.5→4.1

Change
-12.4 pts
Years
2005–2025

Poland: 16.5 (2005) → 4.1 (2025). Difference -12.4 pts. Highest 16.5 in 2005; lowest 4.1 in 2025.

Housing cost overburden — Poland
YearCountryValue
2025Poland4.1
2024Poland5.2
2023Poland5.9
2022Poland5.6
2021Poland5.7
2020Poland4.9
2019Poland6.0
2018Poland6.2
2017Poland6.7
2016Poland7.7
2015Poland8.7
2014Poland9.6
2013Poland10.3
2012Poland10.5
2011Poland10.2
2010Poland9.1
2009Poland8.2
2008Poland9.7
2007Poland10.5
2006Poland12.0
2005Poland16.5

Overcrowding

Share of people in an overcrowded dwelling. SILC. Not PLN/m².

The file

Share of people in an overcrowded dwelling. SILC, same countries as Housing cost overburden.

The indicator

ilc_lvho05a, rskpovth TOTAL, age TOTAL, sex T.

What the numbers show

Overcrowding is not PLN/m² and not the 40% burden. Pair: Housing cost overburden.

Longseries, “Overcrowding”. Eurostat (ilc_lvho05a), 2003–2025, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Switzerland, Cyprus, Czechia, Germany, Denmark, Spain, Estonia, European Union, Finland, France, United Kingdom, Greece, Croatia, Hungary, Ireland, Iceland, Italy, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Latvia, Malta, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Sweden, Türkiye. Retrieved 2026-09-15. Eurostat reuse policy. https://longseries.com/en/d/eu-overcrowding/

Latest values

Sorted by the latest published value. The rest of the file is under the fold.

33 places — sorted by latest value
CountryYearValue
Romania202540.4
Latvia202538.9
Türkiye202537.8
Bulgaria202532.5
Croatia202531.8
Poland202530.9
Greece202528.3
Lithuania202527.8
The rest of the places (25)
Remaining 25 places
Slovakia202527.8
Italy202524.3
Estonia202517.9
European Union202516.8
Czechia202516.7
Sweden202515.7
Hungary202514.6
Austria202514.2
Portugal202512.7
Germany202511.7
Iceland202011.3
France202510.8
Slovenia202510.5
Denmark20259.9
Spain20259.5
Finland20259.5
Luxembourg20258.8
Switzerland20247.6
Norway20256.8
Belgium20256.6
Ireland20255.4
United Kingdom20184.8
Malta20254.7
Netherlands20254.1
Cyprus20252.2

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28.635.542.549.556.4200520122018202530.9
Poland

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Poland

Overcrowding

54.1→30.9

Change
-23.2 pts
Years
2005–2025

Poland: 54.1 (2005) → 30.9 (2025). Difference -23.2 pts. Highest 54.1 in 2005; lowest 30.9 in 2025.

Overcrowding — Poland
YearCountryValue
2025Poland30.9
2024Poland33.7
2023Poland33.9
2022Poland35.8
2021Poland35.7
2020Poland36.9
2019Poland37.6
2018Poland39.2
2017Poland40.5
2016Poland40.7
2015Poland43.4
2014Poland44.2
2013Poland44.8
2012Poland46.3
2011Poland47.2
2010Poland47.5
2009Poland49.1
2008Poland50.8
2007Poland52.3
2006Poland54.1
2005Poland54.1