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Norway: Housing cost overburden rate

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

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

Country overview

Norway

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

Eurostat indicator: Housing cost overburden rate

Latest value

13.50 Percentage of population

European ranking

3 / 30

Compared with Europe

+5.2 puntos

Norway is 5.2 points above the European average.

EU: 8.28

Affected population

5.6M

Year: 2025

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Recent trend

Open trend

Latest: 13.50 Percentage of population Europe benchmark: 7.79 Percentage of population

Internal regions

Embedded regional ranking preview with real regional values and shared semantic bars.

Indicator: Housing cost overburden rate

Granularity: Regions

  1. 1

    Trøndelag

    +45.90

    19.70

  2. 2

    Oslo og Viken

    +11.10

    15.00

  3. 3

    Nord-Norge

    -7.40

    12.50

  4. 4

    Agder og Sør-Østlandet

    -7.40

    12.50

  5. 5

    Vestlandet

    -18.50

    11.00

  6. 6

    Innlandet

    -29.60

    9.50

More context on this indicator

At a glance

Norway performs less favourably than the European benchmark on Housing cost overburden rate, with a large gap. The trend context points to recent reversal. The wider topic context is mixed, combining pressure signals and relative strengths. Regional evidence also shows internal variation.

European comparison in Norway

In Norway, Housing burden stands clearly worse than the European benchmark: 13.5% versus 7.8% in 2025, a large gap of 5.7 percentage points.

Recent trend

In Norway, the medium-term pattern shows deterioration: the value moved from 10.90% in 2021 to 13.50% in 2025. The latest step, from 15.40% in 2024 to 13.50% in 2025, reverses the previous direction and shows recent improvement.

Regional differences in Norway

In Norway, Housing burden shows noticeable regional variation. Across 6 comparable regions, Trøndelag records the highest value (19.7%) and Innlandet the lowest (9.5%), a gap of 10.2 percentage points.

Reading within the topic

In Norway, 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.