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Serbia: Housing cost overburden rate

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

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

Country overview

Serbia

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

Eurostat indicator: Housing cost overburden rate

Latest value

7.90 Percentage of population

European ranking

10 / 30

Compared with Europe

-0.4 puntos

Serbia is 0.4 points below the European average.

EU: 8.28

Affected population

6.6M

Year: 2025

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Recent trend

Open trend

Latest: 7.90 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

    Region Vojvodine

    +35.40

    10.70

  2. 2

    Region Šumadije i Zapadne Srbije

    +8.90

    8.60

  3. 3

    Region Južne i Istočne Srbije

    -13.90

    6.80

  4. 4

    Beogradski region

    -31.60

    5.40

More context on this indicator

At a glance

Serbia performs less favourably than the European benchmark on Housing cost overburden rate, although the difference is relatively small. The trend context points to confirmed improvement. The wider topic context points to broader pressure. Regional evidence also shows internal variation.

European comparison in Serbia

In Serbia, Housing burden is close to the European benchmark, although slightly worse: 7.9% versus 7.8% in 2025, a gap of 0.1 percentage points.

Recent trend

In Serbia, the medium-term pattern shows improvement: the value moved from 16.60% in 2021 to 7.90% in 2025. The latest step, from 11.40% in 2024 to 7.90% in 2025, confirms the improvement. The recent signal has similar intensity to the primary one.

Regional differences in Serbia

In Serbia, Housing burden shows noticeable regional variation. Across 4 comparable regions, Vojvodina records the highest value (10.7%) and Belgrade Region the lowest (5.4%), a gap of 5.3 percentage points.

Reading within the topic

In Serbia, 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.