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Denmark: Housing cost overburden rate

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

Country overview

Denmark

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

Eurostat indicator: Housing cost overburden rate

Latest value

23.40 Percentage of population

European ranking

2 / 30

Compared with Europe

+15.1 puntos

Denmark is 15.1 points above the European average.

EU: 8.28

Affected population

6.0M

Year: 2025

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Recent trend

Open trend

Latest: 23.40 Percentage of population Europe benchmark: 7.79 Percentage of population

Internal regions

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Indicator: Housing cost overburden rate

Granularity: Regions

  1. 1

    Hovedstaden

    +13.70

    26.60

  2. 2

    Midtjylland

    -3.40

    22.60

  3. 3

    Nordjylland

    -4.70

    22.30

  4. 4

    Syddanmark

    -8.10

    21.50

  5. 5

    Sjælland

    -10.30

    21.00

More context on this indicator

At a glance

Denmark performs less favourably than the European benchmark on Housing cost overburden rate, with a large gap. The trend context points to confirmed deterioration. The wider topic context is mixed, combining pressure signals and relative strengths. Regional evidence also shows internal variation.

European comparison in Denmark

In Denmark, Housing burden stands clearly worse than the European benchmark: 23.4% versus 7.8% in 2025, a large gap of 15.6 percentage points.

Recent trend

In Denmark, the medium-term pattern shows deterioration: the value moved from 15.50% in 2021 to 23.40% in 2025. The latest step, from 14.60% in 2024 to 23.40% in 2025, confirms the deterioration. The recent signal has similar intensity to the primary one.

Regional differences in Denmark

In Denmark, regional values for Housing burden are relatively close. Across 5 comparable regions, Hovedstaden records the highest value (26.6%) and Sjælland the lowest (21%), a gap of 5.6 percentage points.

Reading within the topic

In Denmark, Housing & Energy Stress shows a mixed picture: pressure signals and relative strengths coexist across this indicator and its related indicators compared with Europe. Recent changes among related indicators are also mixed, with improvement in some and deterioration in others.