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The 2023 edition of the interactive publication Housing in Europe is now out. This publication focuses on housing across Europe, providing a detailed overview of this topic that plays a vital role in everyone’s life. 

Organised in 3 sections, “How we live”, “Housing cost” and “Construction”, the publication provides data on whether we live in a house or a flat and whether we own or rent, on the size and quality of housing and on the environmental impact. It also presents the evolution of house prices and rents since 2010, how the construction sector evolved since then and shows the most built-up areas in the EU.

All data are presented through interactive visualisations like the one above. Did you know that in the EU in 2022, 69% of the population lived in a household owning their home, while the remaining 31% rented housing?  The highest share of ownership were observed in Romania (95% of the population lived in a household owning their home), Slovakia (93%), Croatia (91%) and Hungary (90%). 

In all EU countries, except Germany, owning was more common. In Germany, renting was somewhat more usual with 53% of the population being tenants. Austria (49%) and Denmark (40%) followed.

If you are curious to know how size, type and quality of housing or house prices and rents vary across EU countries, visit this publication.