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Germany: Housing cost overburden rate

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

Country overview

Germany

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

Eurostat indicator: Housing cost overburden rate

Latest value

11.20 Percentage of population

European ranking

4 / 30

Compared with Europe

+2.9 puntos

Germany is 2.9 points above the European average.

EU: 8.28

Affected population

83.6M

Year: 2025

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Recent trend

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Latest: 11.20 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

    Trier

    +61.60

    18.10

  2. 2

    Hamburg

    +42.00

    15.90

  3. 3

    Rheinhessen-Pfalz

    +23.20

    13.80

  4. 4

    Oberbayern

    +16.10

    13.00

  5. 5

    Koblenz

    +15.20

    12.90

  6. 6

    Köln

    +15.20

    12.90

  7. 7

    Darmstadt

    +12.50

    12.60

  8. 8

    Karlsruhe

    +10.70

    12.40

  9. 9

    Freiburg

    +10.70

    12.40

  10. 10

    Berlin

    +9.80

    12.30

  11. 11

    Gießen

    +8.00

    12.10

  12. 12

    Düsseldorf

    +7.10

    12.00

  13. 13

    Tübingen

    +7.10

    12.00

  14. 14

    Arnsberg

    +5.40

    11.80

  15. 15

    Weser-Ems

    +4.50

    11.70

  16. 16

    Saarland

    +4.50

    11.70

  17. 17

    Braunschweig

    +0.90

    11.30

  18. 18

    Schleswig-Holstein

    +0.90

    11.30

  19. 19

    Hannover

    -0.90

    11.10

  20. 20

    Münster

    -0.90

    11.10

  21. 21

    Mittelfranken

    -5.40

    10.60

  22. 22

    Bremen

    -7.10

    10.40

  23. 23

    Stuttgart

    -8.90

    10.20

  24. 24

    Detmold

    -8.90

    10.20

  25. 25

    Leipzig

    -10.70

    10.00

More context on this indicator

At a glance

Germany performs less favourably than the European benchmark on Housing cost overburden rate, with a moderate gap. The trend context points to recent departure from stability. The wider topic context is mixed, combining pressure signals and relative strengths. Regional evidence also shows internal variation.

European comparison in Germany

In Germany, Housing burden is noticeably worse than the European benchmark: 11.2% versus 7.8% in 2025, with a gap of 3.4 percentage points.

Recent trend

In Germany, the medium-term pattern is broadly stable: the value moved from 11.00% in 2021 to 11.20% in 2025. The primary pattern was broadly stable, but the latest step, from 12.00% in 2024 to 11.20% in 2025, departs from that stability with an improvement.

Regional differences in Germany

In Germany, regional differences in Housing burden are pronounced. Across 38 comparable regions, Trier records the highest value (18.1%) and Chemnitz the lowest (5.5%), a gap of 12.6 percentage points.

Reading within the topic

In Germany, 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.