Greece
28.9%Housing-cost overburden
- All people · overburden
- 28.9%
- Lowest income fifth
- 88.6%
- Market renters
- 37.4%
- Overcrowding
- 27.0%
Money Atlas · Map 07
The European housing squeeze.
See where housing costs cross the affordability threshold—and how the answer changes for low-income households, renters, owners and crowded homes.
Official Eurostat data27 EU countries2015–2024
Choose the pressure
Housing-cost overburden
Share of people living in households where total housing costs exceed 40% of disposable income, after housing allowances.
EU-SILC · 2024
Where does housing pressure show?
Share of people · higher means more pressure
Country positions are approximate. Select a tile to inspect the published estimate.
Who carries the cost?
Housing-cost overburden by age.
Greece · 2024 · same 40% threshold
These age bars always show the overall housing-cost overburden measure, even when the map is set to a tenure, income or overcrowding lens.
A decade in view
Did the squeeze widen or ease?
Greece · all people · housing-cost overburden
Breaks in the line mean Eurostat did not publish a comparable estimate for that country-year.
Country ranking
The same pressure, all 27 countries.
Housing-cost overburden
What changes the picture
One housing crisis has several maps.
Income exposes the edge
The lowest-income fifth faces a far higher overburden rate than the population-wide figure in every country.
Tenure changes the ranking
Market renters and mortgaged owners do not face the same pattern, so an overall average can conceal very different systems.
Space is a separate strain
Overcrowding captures inadequate room rather than excessive cost. It should be read beside—not as a substitute for—the 40% threshold.
Exact snapshot
Five views of housing pressure.
Percent of people · 2024
| Country | All people | Lowest fifth | Market renters | Mortgage owners | Overcrowding |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Greece | 28.9% | 88.6% | 37.4% | 20.9% | 27.0% |
| Denmark | 14.6% | 49.8% | 28.7% | 5.5% | 9.3% |
| Germany | 12.0% | 33.3% | 13.8% | 14.5% | 11.5% |
| Sweden | 10.6% | 40.7% | 17.9% | 4.7% | 16.7% |
| Czechia | 9.2% | 33.5% | 30.6% | 4.0% | 16.6% |
| Hungary | 9.0% | 27.6% | 43.8% | 10.1% | 14.6% |
| Estonia | 8.6% | 29.8% | 30.8% | 6.6% | 18.4% |
| Bulgaria | 8.0% | 30.7% | 27.8% | 13.7% | 33.8% |
| Luxembourg | 8.0% | 26.6% | 20.0% | 4.5% | 6.8% |
| Spain | 7.8% | 29.6% | 28.1% | 4.3% | 9.1% |
| France | 7.0% | 25.2% | 20.2% | 1.1% | 10.4% |
| Netherlands | 6.9% | 20.0% | 43.9% | 1.0% | 4.6% |
| Portugal | 6.9% | 24.1% | 30.3% | 3.8% | 11.2% |
| Belgium | 6.7% | 24.9% | 24.3% | 1.0% | 6.5% |
| Latvia | 6.7% | 27.3% | 16.0% | 3.1% | 39.3% |
| Slovakia | 6.4% | 27.1% | 29.1% | 3.8% | 29.9% |
| Austria | 6.3% | 27.6% | 14.6% | 2.1% | 13.7% |
| Lithuania | 6.2% | 23.6% | 21.8% | 4.9% | 26.3% |
| Malta | 5.9% | 22.4% | 20.5% | 1.7% | 3.7% |
| Finland | 5.4% | 18.0% | 14.1% | 1.8% | 9.1% |
| Poland | 5.2% | 20.5% | 15.1% | 5.0% | 33.7% |
| Italy | 5.1% | 20.9% | 19.4% | 1.7% | 23.9% |
| Romania | 4.7% | 15.8% | 28.3% | 0.2% | 40.7% |
| Ireland | 4.5% | 13.6% | 18.3% | 1.3% | 5.0% |
| Slovenia | 3.8% | 15.8% | 16.5% | 3.5% | 10.6% |
| Croatia | 3.7% | 17.0% | 29.2% | 2.4% | 31.7% |
| Cyprus | 2.4% | 7.6% | 14.4% | 0.3% | 2.4% |
Important boundary
Survey estimates—not a league table of housing policy.
- EU-SILC uses harmonised definitions, but national housing systems and survey precision differ.
- Housing costs are measured net of housing allowances and against disposable household income.
- Small year-to-year moves can reflect sampling variation as well as real change.
Primary sourceEurostat EU-SILC
Housing-cost overburden by age (tessi161), income quintile (tessi162) and tenure (tessi164), plus overcrowding (ilc_lvho05a). 2015–2024 snapshots shown where published.