European ranking
7 / 30
Improved by 1 positions since the previous year
Poland: Overcrowding rate
An editorial snapshot of country living conditions with trend, regional spread, and context links.
Country overview
Poland
Current reading for Overcrowding rate in a European context.
Eurostat indicator: Overcrowding rate
Latest value
30.90 Percent of population
Compared with Europe
+15.9 puntos
Poland is 15.9 points above the European average.
EU: 22.31
Affected population
≈ 11.28 million people affected
Year: 2025
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Indicator: Overcrowding rate
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At a glance
Poland performs less favourably than the European benchmark on Overcrowding rate, with a large gap. The trend context points to confirmed improvement. The wider topic context is mixed, combining pressure signals and relative strengths.
European comparison in Poland
In Poland, Overcrowding stands clearly worse than the European benchmark: 30.9% versus 18.6% in 2025, a large gap of 12.3 percentage points.
Recent trend
In Poland, the medium-term pattern shows improvement: the value moved from 36.90% in 2020 to 30.90% in 2025. The latest step, from 33.70% in 2024 to 30.90% in 2025, confirms the improvement. The recent signal is stronger than the primary one.
Reading within the topic
In Poland, 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.