EU 8.35
· European ranking
11 / 34
Up 10 positions compared with previous year
Montenegro: Housing Affordability
An editorial snapshot of country living conditions with trend, regional spread, and context links.
Latest value
· 2024
8.70% of population
EU 8.35 · +0.3 pp vs Europe
What this indicator measures
Measures the share of people living in households where total housing costs exceed 40% of disposable household income.
Lower values generally represent a more favorable situation.
Data source: Eurostat Housing cost overburden rate ilc_lvho07_r
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Internal regions
No regional breakdown available for this indicator.
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At a glance
Montenegro performs less favourably than the European benchmark on Housing cost overburden rate, although the difference is relatively small. The trend context points to available multi-year trend with recent update. The wider topic context points to broader pressure.
European comparison in Montenegro
In Montenegro, Housing burden is close to the European benchmark, although slightly worse: 8.7% versus 8.4% in 2024, a gap of 0.3 percentage points.
Recent trend
In Montenegro, the available multi-year period is broadly stable: the value moved from 8.00% in 2021 to 8.70% in 2024. The latest update, from 6.10% in 2023 to 8.70% in 2024, shows deterioration. The recent signal is stronger than the primary one.
Reading within the topic
In Montenegro, the evidence for Housing & Energy Stress leans towards pressure compared with Europe; related indicators do not provide a sufficiently strong counter-signal. Material recent changes among related indicators lean towards improvement.