34% of non-EU citizens live in overcrowded households

In 2023, 34.2% of non-EU citizens in the EU lived in overcrowded households, meaning they did not have the number of rooms appropriate for the size of the household. The year before, 32.9% of non-EU citizens lived in overcrowded households. 

For nationals, the rate was 13.7% in 2023 (down from 13.9% the year before) and 20.8% for EU citizens residing in another EU country, compared with 20.5% in 2022.

This article presents a handful of findings from the more detailed Statistics Explained article on migrant integration statistics – housing, which also provides statistics on home ownership and housing cost overburden rate.  

Source dataset: ilc_lvho15

Highest overcrowding rate for non-EU citizens in Poland, lowest in Cyprus

The overcrowding rates for non-EU citizens were the highest in Poland (53.3%), Italy (50.7%), Sweden (48.3%) and Greece (47.5%), while the lowest were in Cyprus (4.0%), Ireland (9.1%) and Malta (10.8%).

For citizens of other EU countries, the overcrowding rates were the highest in Italy (39.9%), Greece (33.1%) and Germany (24.9%). In contrast, the lowest rates were observed in Malta (0.3%), followed by the Netherlands (4.8%) and Cyprus (5.4%). 

The highest overcrowding rates recorded for nationals were in Latvia (37.0%), Romania (35.2%) and Poland (31.5%). The lowest rates were observed in Malta (1.0%), Cyprus (1.4%) and Ireland (2.0%).