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Italy: Housing cost overburden rate

An editorial snapshot of country living conditions with trend, regional spread, and context links.

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

Country overview

Italy

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

Eurostat indicator: Housing cost overburden rate

Latest value

5.00 Percentage of population

European ranking

23 / 30

Compared with Europe

-3.3 puntos

Italy is 3.3 points below the European average.

EU: 8.28

Affected population

58.9M

Year: 2025

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Recent trend

Open trend

Latest: 5.00 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

    Campania

    +68.00

    8.40

  2. 2

    Liguria

    +62.00

    8.10

  3. 3

    Calabria

    +26.00

    6.30

  4. 4

    Sicilia

    +24.00

    6.20

  5. 5

    Lazio

    +16.00

    5.80

  6. 6

    Toscana

    +12.00

    5.60

  7. 7

    Piemonte

    +4.00

    5.20

  8. 8

    Sardegna

    -4.00

    4.80

  9. 9

    Puglia

    -8.00

    4.60

  10. 10

    Abruzzo

    -18.00

    4.10

  11. 11

    Lombardia

    -18.00

    4.10

  12. 12

    Marche

    -18.00

    4.10

  13. 13

    Veneto

    -30.00

    3.50

  14. 14

    Friuli-Venezia Giulia

    -34.00

    3.30

  15. 15

    Emilia-Romagna

    -38.00

    3.10

  16. 16

    Valle dAosta / Vallée dAoste

    -38.00

    3.10

  17. 17

    Provincia Autonoma di Trento

    -40.00

    3.00

  18. 18

    Provincia Autonoma di Bolzano / Bozen

    -40.00

    3.00

  19. 19

    Molise

    -42.00

    2.90

  20. 20

    Umbria

    -44.00

    2.80

  21. 21

    Basilicata

    -58.00

    2.10

More context on this indicator

At a glance

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

European comparison in Italy

In Italy, Housing burden is noticeably better than the European benchmark: 5.0% versus 7.8% in 2025, with a gap of 2.8 percentage points.

Recent trend

In Italy, the medium-term pattern shows improvement: the value moved from 7.20% in 2021 to 5.00% in 2025. The latest value changes little from 5.10% in 2024, so the improvement continues but with less intensity.

Regional differences in Italy

In Italy, regional differences in Housing burden are pronounced. Across 21 comparable regions, Campania records the highest value (8.4%) and Basilicata the lowest (2.1%), a gap of 6.3 percentage points.

Reading within the topic

In Italy, 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 deterioration and warrant monitoring.