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Estonia: Housing cost overburden rate
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Country overview
Estonia
Current reading for Housing cost overburden rate in a European context.
Eurostat indicator: Housing cost overburden rate
Latest value
8.80 Percentage of population
Compared with Europe
+1.0 puntos
Estonia is 1.0 points above the European average.
EU: 7.79
Affected population
1.4M
Year: 2025
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Indicator: Housing cost overburden rate
Granularity: Regions
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Estland
—8.80
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At a glance
Estonia performs less favourably than the European benchmark on Housing cost overburden rate, with a moderate gap. The trend context points to confirmed deterioration. The wider topic context is mixed, combining pressure signals and relative strengths.
European comparison in Estonia
In Estonia, Housing burden is noticeably worse than the European benchmark: 8.8% versus 7.8% in 2025, with a gap of 1.0 percentage points.
Recent trend
In Estonia, the medium-term pattern shows deterioration: the value moved from 4.40% in 2021 to 8.80% in 2025. The latest value changes little from 8.60% in 2024, so the previous deterioration continues but with less intensity.
Reading within the topic
In Estonia, 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.