EU 1.64
· European ranking
22 / 30
No change compared with previous year
Bulgaria: Housing Space per Person
An editorial snapshot of country living conditions with trend, regional spread, and context links.
Latest value
· 2025
1.40 Rooms per person
EU 1.64 · -0.2 pp vs Europe
What this indicator measures
Measures the average number of rooms available in a household relative to the number of people living there, using Eurostat rules on which habitable spaces count as rooms.
Higher values generally represent a more favorable situation.
Data source: Eurostat Average number of rooms per person ilc_lvho04d
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Regional map
· 2025 · 6 regions
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Internal regions
Comparison of values across the country's regions for this indicator.
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1+14.29
1.60
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2+7.14
1.50
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3+0.00
1.40
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3+0.00
1.40
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3+0.00
1.40
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6-7.14
1.30
More context on this indicator
At a glance
Bulgaria performs less favourably than the European benchmark on Average number of rooms per person, with a moderate gap. The trend context points to recent stabilization. The wider topic context points to broader pressure. Regional evidence also shows internal variation.
European comparison in Bulgaria
In Bulgaria, Rooms per person is noticeably worse than the European benchmark: 1.4 rooms per person versus 1.6 rooms per person in 2025, with a gap of 0.2 rooms per person.
Recent trend
In Bulgaria, the medium-term pattern shows improvement: the value moved from 1.3 in 2020 to 1.4 in 2025. The latest value changes little from 1.4 in 2024, indicating a pause in the previous improvement.
Regional differences in Bulgaria
In Bulgaria, regional values for Rooms per person are relatively close. Across 6 comparable regions, Severen tsentralen records the highest value (1.6 rooms per person) and Yugozapaden the lowest (1.3 rooms per person), a gap of 0.3 rooms per person.
Reading within the topic
In Bulgaria, the evidence for Quality of Life & Household Conditions 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.