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Latvia: Housing cost overburden rate
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Country overview
Latvia
Current reading for Housing cost overburden rate in a European context.
Eurostat indicator: Housing cost overburden rate
Latest value
5.70 Percentage of population
Compared with Europe
-2.1 puntos
Latvia is 2.1 points below the European average.
EU: 7.79
Affected population
1.9M
Year: 2025
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Indicator: Housing cost overburden rate
Granularity: Regions
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Latvia
—5.70
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At a glance
Latvia performs more 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.
European comparison in Latvia
In Latvia, Housing burden is noticeably better than the European benchmark: 5.7% versus 7.8% in 2025, with a gap of 2.1 percentage points.
Recent trend
In Latvia, the medium-term pattern is broadly stable: the value moved from 4.90% in 2021 to 5.70% in 2025. The primary pattern was broadly stable, but the latest step, from 6.70% in 2024 to 5.70% in 2025, departs from that stability with an improvement.
Reading within the topic
In Latvia, 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.