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Portugal: Housing cost overburden rate

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

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

Country overview

Portugal

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

Eurostat indicator: Housing cost overburden rate

Latest value

6.30 Percentage of population

European ranking

16 / 30

Compared with Europe

-2.0 puntos

Portugal is 2.0 points below the European average.

EU: 8.28

Affected population

10.7M

Year: 2025

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Recent trend

Open trend

Latest: 6.30 Percentage of population Europe benchmark: 7.79 Percentage of population

Internal regions

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Indicator: Housing cost overburden rate

Granularity: Regions

  1. 1

    Área Metropolitana de Lisboa

    +58.70

    10.00

  2. 2

    Algarve

    +36.50

    8.60

  3. 3

    Alentejo

    +6.30

    6.70

  4. 4

    Região Autónoma da Madeira

    -7.90

    5.80

  5. 5

    Norte

    -19.00

    5.10

  6. 6

    Região Autónoma da Madeira

    -20.60

    5.00

  7. 7

    Centro (PT)

    -27.00

    4.60

  8. 8

    Região Autónoma dos Açores

    -30.20

    4.40

  9. 9

    Região Autónoma dos Açores

    -41.30

    3.70

More context on this indicator

At a glance

Portugal 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. Regional evidence also shows internal variation.

European comparison in Portugal

In Portugal, Housing burden is noticeably better than the European benchmark: 6.3% versus 7.8% in 2025, with a gap of 1.5 percentage points.

Recent trend

In Portugal, the medium-term pattern is broadly stable: the value moved from 5.90% in 2021 to 6.30% in 2025. The primary pattern was broadly stable, but the latest step, from 6.90% in 2024 to 6.30% in 2025, departs from that stability with an improvement.

Regional differences in Portugal

In Portugal, regional differences in Housing burden are pronounced. Across 9 comparable regions, Área Metropolitana de Lisboa records the highest value (10%) and Região Autónoma dos Açores the lowest (3.7%), a gap of 6.3 percentage points.

Reading within the topic

In Portugal, 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.