Overcrowding rate
Share of the population living in a dwelling with fewer rooms than the EU standard for the household: one room for the household, one per couple, one per single person aged 18 or over, one per pair of children of the same sex aged 12 to 17, one per single child aged 12 to 17 not in such a pair, and one per pair of children under 12 (EU-SILC).
The reference year is the survey year.
Key facts
- Overcrowding rate in the European Union (27) was 16.8% in 2025, according to Eurostat, European Commission.
- Romania had the highest overcrowding rate of 27 EU countries in 2025, at 40.4%, and Cyprus the lowest, at 2.2%. Source: Eurostat, European Commission.
- Published for 28 places, with figures from 2003 to 2025.
Rankings
EU countries by overcrowding rate, 2025
Places with data
World, EU and euro area
Countries
- Germany
- France
- Italy
- Spain
- Poland
- Romania
- Netherlands
- Belgium
- Czechia
- Portugal
- Estonia
- Ireland
- Bulgaria
- Sweden
- Slovakia
- Slovenia
Use this data in your AI agent
Invokely serves this figure to AI assistants through MCP and to code through a REST API, with the source and citation attached. Ask your assistant:
Which places have the highest overcrowding rate? Use official data and cite it.
rank_places {"indicator":"overcrowding_rate","level":"country","within":"European Union (27)"}
GET https://invokely.ai/api/v1/rank?indicator=overcrowding_rate&level=country&within=European%20Union%20(27)