European ranking
32 / 37
Worsened by 2 positions since the previous year
United Kingdom: Overcrowding rate
An editorial snapshot of country living conditions with trend, regional spread, and context links.
Country overview
United Kingdom
Current reading for Overcrowding rate in a European context.
Eurostat indicator: Overcrowding rate
Latest value
4.80 Percent of population
Compared with Europe
-18.1 puntos
United Kingdom is 18.1 points below the European average.
EU: 22.89
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Indicator: Overcrowding rate
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At a glance
United Kingdom performs more favourably than the European benchmark on Overcrowding rate, with a large gap. The trend context points to recent reversal. The wider topic context points to broader relative strength.
European comparison in United Kingdom
In United Kingdom, Overcrowding stands clearly better than the European benchmark: 4.8% versus 22.9% in 2018, a large gap of 18.1 percentage points.
Recent trend
In the United Kingdom, the medium-term pattern shows improvement: the value moved from 8.00% in 2013 to 4.80% in 2018. The latest step, from 3.40% in 2017 to 4.80% in 2018, reverses the previous direction and shows recent deterioration.
Reading within the topic
In United Kingdom, the evidence for Housing & Energy Stress leans towards relatively favourable performance compared with Europe, without a clear pressure signal dominating the picture. Recent changes among related indicators are also mixed, with improvement in some and deterioration in others.