EU 8.35
· European ranking
34 / 34
No change compared with previous year
Albania: Housing Affordability
An editorial snapshot of country living conditions with trend, regional spread, and context links.
Latest value
· 2024
2.30% of population
EU 8.35 · -6.1 pp vs Europe
What this indicator measures
Measures the share of people living in households where total housing costs exceed 40% of disposable household income.
Lower values generally represent a more favorable situation.
Data source: Eurostat Housing cost overburden rate ilc_lvho07_r
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Internal regions
No regional breakdown available for this indicator.
More context on this indicator
At a glance
Albania performs more favourably than the European benchmark on Housing cost overburden rate, with a large gap. The trend context points to available multi-year trend with recent update. The wider topic context is mixed, combining pressure signals and relative strengths.
European comparison in Albania
In Albania, Housing burden stands clearly better than the European benchmark: 2.3% versus 8.4% in 2024, a large gap of 6.1 percentage points.
Recent trend
In Albania, the available multi-year period shows improvement: the value moved from 3.30% in 2021 to 2.30% in 2024. The latest update changes little from 2.10% in 2023 and qualifies the primary-period signal.
Reading within the topic
In Albania, Housing & Energy Stress shows a mixed picture: pressure signals and relative strengths coexist across this indicator and its related indicators compared with Europe. Material recent changes among related indicators lean towards improvement.