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Sweden: House price to income ratio

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Country: Sweden Indicator: House price to income ratio Year: 2024

Country overview

Sweden

Current reading for House price to income ratio in a European context.

Eurostat indicator: House price to income ratio

Latest value

108.10 Index, long-term average = 100

European ranking

6 / 27

Improved by 1 positions since the previous year

Compared with Europe

+11.0 puntos

Sweden is 11.0 points above the European average.

EU: 97.13

Affected population

10.6M

Year: 2025

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Recent trend

Open trend

Latest: 108.10 Index, long-term average = 100 Europe benchmark: 97.13 Index, long-term average = 100

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Indicator: House price to income ratio

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At a glance

Sweden performs less favourably than the European benchmark on House price to income ratio, 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 Sweden

In Sweden, Price to income stands clearly worse than the European benchmark: 108.1 index points versus 97.1 index points in 2024, a large gap of 11.0 index points.

Recent trend

In Sweden, the medium-term pattern shows improvement: the value moved from 117.74 in 2019 to 108.14 in 2024. The latest step, from 111.62 in 2023 to 108.14 in 2024, confirms the improvement. The recent signal is stronger than the primary one.

Reading within the topic

In Sweden, 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.