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Spain: Housing cost overburden rate

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

Country overview

Spain

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

Eurostat indicator: Housing cost overburden rate

Latest value

7.20 Percentage of population

European ranking

11 / 30

Compared with Europe

-1.1 puntos

Spain is 1.1 points below the European average.

EU: 8.28

Affected population

49.1M

Year: 2025

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Recent trend

Open trend

Latest: 7.20 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

    Ciudad de Melilla

    +91.70

    13.80

  2. 2

    Comunidad de Madrid

    +37.50

    9.90

  3. 3

    Comunitat Valenciana

    +18.10

    8.50

  4. 4

    Cataluña

    +8.30

    7.80

  5. 5

    Castilla y León

    +5.60

    7.60

  6. 6

    Ciudad de Ceuta

    +1.40

    7.30

  7. 7

    Andalucía

    -2.80

    7.00

  8. 8

    Región de Murcia

    -5.60

    6.80

  9. 9

    La Rioja

    -5.60

    6.80

  10. 10

    Castilla-La Mancha

    -6.90

    6.70

  11. 11

    Cantabria

    -6.90

    6.70

  12. 12

    Illes Balears

    -11.10

    6.40

  13. 13

    Principado de Asturias

    -25.00

    5.40

  14. 14

    Canarias

    -30.60

    5.00

  15. 15

    País Vasco

    -31.90

    4.90

  16. 16

    Galicia

    -34.70

    4.70

  17. 17

    Aragón

    -38.90

    4.40

  18. 18

    Extremadura

    -41.70

    4.20

  19. 19

    Comunidad Foral de Navarra

    -51.40

    3.50

More context on this indicator

At a glance

Spain performs more 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 is mixed, combining pressure signals and relative strengths. Regional evidence also shows internal variation.

European comparison in Spain

In Spain, Housing burden is close to the European benchmark and slightly better: 7.2% versus 7.8% in 2025, a gap of 0.6 percentage points.

Recent trend

In Spain, the medium-term pattern shows improvement: the value moved from 9.90% in 2021 to 7.20% in 2025. The latest step, from 7.80% in 2024 to 7.20% in 2025, confirms the improvement. The recent signal has similar intensity to the primary one.

Regional differences in Spain

In Spain, regional differences in Housing burden are pronounced. Across 19 comparable regions, Ciudad de Melilla records the highest value (13.8%) and Comunidad Foral de Navarra the lowest (3.5%), a gap of 10.3 percentage points.

Reading within the topic

In Spain, 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.