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Slovakia: Housing cost overburden rate

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

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

Country overview

Slovakia

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

Eurostat indicator: Housing cost overburden rate

Latest value

3.50 Percentage of population

European ranking

28 / 30

Compared with Europe

-4.8 puntos

Slovakia is 4.8 points below the European average.

EU: 8.28

Affected population

5.4M

Year: 2025

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Recent trend

Open trend

Latest: 3.50 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

    Západné Slovensko

    +40.00

    4.90

  2. 2

    Stredné Slovensko

    -5.70

    3.30

  3. 3

    Východné Slovensko

    -22.90

    2.70

  4. 4

    BratislavskĂ˝ kraj

    -54.30

    1.60

More context on this indicator

At a glance

Slovakia performs more favourably than the European benchmark on Housing cost overburden rate, with a moderate gap. The trend context points to confirmed improvement. The wider topic context is mixed, combining pressure signals and relative strengths. Regional evidence also shows internal variation.

European comparison in Slovakia

In Slovakia, Housing burden is noticeably better than the European benchmark: 3.5% versus 7.8% in 2025, with a gap of 4.3 percentage points.

Recent trend

In Slovakia, the medium-term pattern shows improvement: the value moved from 7.10% in 2021 to 3.50% in 2025. The latest step, from 6.40% in 2024 to 3.50% in 2025, confirms the improvement. The recent signal is stronger than the primary one.

Regional differences in Slovakia

In Slovakia, Housing burden shows noticeable regional variation. Across 4 comparable regions, Western Slovakia records the highest value (4.9%) and Bratislava Region the lowest (1.6%), a gap of 3.3 percentage points.

Reading within the topic

In Slovakia, Housing & Energy Stress shows a mixed picture: pressure signals and relative strengths coexist across this indicator and its related indicators compared with Europe. Material recent changes among related indicators lean towards improvement.