European ranking
27 / 30
No change from the previous year
Ireland: Overcrowding rate
An editorial snapshot of country living conditions with trend, regional spread, and context links.
Country overview
Ireland
Current reading for Overcrowding rate in a European context.
Eurostat indicator: Overcrowding rate
Latest value
5.40 Percent of population
Compared with Europe
-10.9 puntos
Ireland is 10.9 points below the European average.
EU: 22.31
Affected population
≈ 0.29 million people affected
Year: 2025
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Indicator: Overcrowding rate
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At a glance
Ireland performs more favourably than the European benchmark on Overcrowding rate, with a large gap. The trend context points to confirmed deterioration. The wider topic context is mixed, combining pressure signals and relative strengths.
European comparison in Ireland
In Ireland, Overcrowding stands clearly better than the European benchmark: 5.4% versus 18.6% in 2025, a large gap of 13.2 percentage points.
Recent trend
In Ireland, the medium-term pattern shows deterioration: the value moved from 3.00% in 2020 to 5.40% in 2025. The latest step, from 5.00% in 2024 to 5.40% in 2025, confirms the deterioration. The recent signal has similar intensity to the primary one.
Reading within the topic
In Ireland, 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.