European ranking
18 / 30
Malta: Housing cost overburden rate
An editorial snapshot of country living conditions with trend, regional spread, and context links.
Country overview
Malta
Current reading for Housing cost overburden rate in a European context.
Eurostat indicator: Housing cost overburden rate
Latest value
6.00 Percentage of population
Compared with Europe
-1.8 puntos
Malta is 1.8 points below the European average.
EU: 7.79
Affected population
574.2K
Year: 2025
Explore this indicator
Map preview
Open mapLoading map preview...
Recent trend
Open trendInternal regions
Embedded regional ranking preview with real regional values and shared semantic bars.
Indicator: Housing cost overburden rate
Granularity: Regions
-
1
Malta
—6.00
More context on this indicator
At a glance
Malta performs more favourably than the European benchmark on Housing cost overburden rate, with a moderate gap. The trend context points to confirmed deterioration. The wider topic context points to broader relative strength.
European comparison in Malta
In Malta, Housing burden is noticeably better than the European benchmark: 6.0% versus 7.8% in 2025, with a gap of 1.8 percentage points.
Recent trend
In Malta, the medium-term pattern shows deterioration: the value moved from 2.70% in 2021 to 6.00% in 2025. The latest value changes little from 5.90% in 2024, so the previous deterioration continues but with less intensity.
Reading within the topic
In Malta, the evidence for Housing & Energy Stress leans towards relatively favourable performance compared with Europe, without a clear pressure signal dominating the picture. Recent changes among related indicators are also mixed, with improvement in some and deterioration in others.