# EU countries by average household size, 2025

All 27 values come from Eurostat, European Commission for 2025, so the places are comparable.

- Indicator id: `average_household_size`
- Unit: persons per household
- Definition: Average number of persons per private household. EU countries: EU-SILC. United States: American Community Survey five-year estimate of people in households divided by occupied housing units, where the period shown is the last year of the five-year span.
- Source: Eurostat, European Commission, Average household size (ilc_lvph01) (https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/databrowser/view/ilc_lvph01/default/table)
- Publisher page: https://invokely.ai/en/publishers/eurostat
- Retrieved: 2026-10-12
- Citation: Eurostat. Average household size (ilc_lvph01). https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/databrowser/view/ilc_lvph01/default/table. Retrieved 2026-10-12.
- Web page: https://invokely.ai/rankings/average-household-size/eu-countries

| Rank | Place | persons per household |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | Slovakia | 3.1 |
| 2 | Poland | 2.8 |
| 3 | Ireland | 2.7 |
| 4 | Croatia | 2.6 |
| 5 | Cyprus | 2.5 |
| 5 | Romania | 2.5 |
| 5 | Spain | 2.5 |
| 8 | Greece | 2.4 |
| 8 | Malta | 2.4 |
| 8 | Portugal | 2.4 |
| 8 | Slovenia | 2.4 |
| 12 | Czechia | 2.3 |
| 12 | Hungary | 2.3 |
| 12 | Luxembourg | 2.3 |
| 15 | Austria | 2.2 |
| 15 | Belgium | 2.2 |
| 15 | Bulgaria | 2.2 |
| 15 | Italy | 2.2 |
| 15 | Latvia | 2.2 |
| 20 | Estonia | 2.1 |
| 20 | France | 2.1 |
| 20 | Netherlands | 2.1 |
| 23 | Germany | 2 |
| 23 | Sweden | 2 |
| 25 | Denmark | 1.9 |
| 25 | Finland | 1.9 |
| 27 | Lithuania | 1.8 |