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Hungary: Housing cost overburden rate
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Country overview
Hungary
Current reading for Housing cost overburden rate in a European context.
Eurostat indicator: Housing cost overburden rate
Latest value
5.30 Percentage of population
Compared with Europe
-3.0 puntos
Hungary is 3.0 points below the European average.
EU: 8.28
Affected population
9.5M
Year: 2025
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Indicator: Housing cost overburden rate
Granularity: Regions
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1
Budapest
+41.507.50
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2
Dél-Dunántúl
+24.506.60
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3
Észak-Magyarország
+15.106.10
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4
Dél-Alföld
+5.705.60
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5
Észak-Alföld
-11.304.70
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6
Nyugat-Dunántúl
-22.604.10
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7
Pest
-28.303.80
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8
Közép-Dunántúl
-35.803.40
More context on this indicator
At a glance
Hungary performs more favourably than the European benchmark on Housing cost overburden rate, with a moderate gap. The trend context points to recent reversal. The wider topic context is mixed, combining pressure signals and relative strengths. Regional evidence also shows internal variation.
European comparison in Hungary
In Hungary, Housing burden is noticeably better than the European benchmark: 5.3% versus 7.8% in 2025, with a gap of 2.5 percentage points.
Recent trend
In Hungary, the medium-term pattern shows deterioration: the value moved from 2.70% in 2021 to 5.30% in 2025. The latest step, from 9.00% in 2024 to 5.30% in 2025, reverses the previous direction and shows recent improvement.
Regional differences in Hungary
In Hungary, Housing burden shows noticeable regional variation. Across 8 comparable regions, Budapest records the highest value (7.5%) and Közép-Dunántúl the lowest (3.4%), a gap of 4.1 percentage points.
Reading within the topic
In Hungary, 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.