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Bulgaria: Housing cost overburden rate

An editorial snapshot of country living conditions with trend, regional spread, and context links.

Country: Bulgaria Indicator: Housing cost overburden rate Year: 2025

Country overview

Bulgaria

Current reading for Housing cost overburden rate in a European context.

Eurostat indicator: Housing cost overburden rate

Latest value

6.90 Percentage of population

European ranking

12 / 30

Compared with Europe

-1.4 puntos

Bulgaria is 1.4 points below the European average.

EU: 8.28

Affected population

6.4M

Year: 2025

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Recent trend

Open trend

Latest: 6.90 Percentage of population Europe benchmark: 7.79 Percentage of population

Internal regions

Embedded regional ranking preview with real regional values and shared semantic bars.

Indicator: Housing cost overburden rate

Granularity: Regions

  1. 1

    Yugoiztochen

    +65.20

    11.40

  2. 2

    Severen tsentralen

    +29.00

    8.90

  3. 3

    Severozapaden

    +21.70

    8.40

  4. 4

    Yuzhen tsentralen

    -2.90

    6.70

  5. 5

    Severoiztochen

    -18.80

    5.60

  6. 6

    Yugozapaden

    -36.20

    4.40

More context on this indicator

At a glance

Bulgaria performs more favourably than the European benchmark on Housing cost overburden rate, although the difference is relatively small. The trend context points to confirmed improvement. The wider topic context is mixed, combining pressure signals and relative strengths. Regional evidence also shows internal variation.

European comparison in Bulgaria

In Bulgaria, Housing burden is close to the European benchmark and slightly better: 6.9% versus 7.8% in 2025, a gap of 0.9 percentage points.

Recent trend

In Bulgaria, the medium-term pattern shows improvement: the value moved from 11.60% in 2021 to 6.90% in 2025. The latest step, from 8.00% in 2024 to 6.90% in 2025, confirms the improvement. The recent signal has similar intensity to the primary one.

Regional differences in Bulgaria

In Bulgaria, regional differences in Housing burden are pronounced. Across 6 comparable regions, Yugoiztochen records the highest value (11.4%) and Yugozapaden the lowest (4.4%), a gap of 7 percentage points.

Reading within the topic

In Bulgaria, 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.