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Czechia: Housing Affordability

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

Czechia

Latest value

· 2025

8.20% of population

EU 7.79 · +0.4 pp vs Europe

European ranking

8 / 30

No change compared with previous year

Recent trend

Open trend

Population

10.9M

Country population · 2025

What this indicator measures

Measures the share of people living in households where total housing costs exceed 40% of disposable household income.

Lower values generally represent a more favorable situation.

Data source: Eurostat Housing cost overburden rate ilc_lvho07_r

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· 2025 · 8 regions

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Internal regions

Comparison of values across the country's regions for this indicator.

  1. 1

    Praha

    +85.37

    15.20

  2. 2

    Moravskoslezsko

    +17.07

    9.60

  3. 3

    Střední Čechy

    +12.20

    9.20

  4. 4

    Severozápad

    +7.32

    8.80

  5. 5

    Jihozápad

    -17.07

    6.80

  6. 5

    Severovýchod

    -17.07

    6.80

  7. 7

    Střední Morava

    -30.49

    5.70

  8. 8

    Jihovýchod

    -42.68

    4.70

More context on this indicator

At a glance

Czechia performs less favourably than the European benchmark on Housing cost overburden rate, although the difference is relatively small. The trend context points to recent reversal. The wider topic context is mixed, combining pressure signals and relative strengths. Regional evidence also shows internal variation.

European comparison in Czechia

In Czechia, Housing burden is close to the European benchmark, although slightly worse: 8.2% versus 7.8% in 2025, a gap of 0.4 percentage points.

Recent trend

In Czechia, the medium-term pattern shows deterioration: the value moved from 6.20% in 2021 to 8.20% in 2025. The latest step, from 9.20% in 2024 to 8.20% in 2025, reverses the previous direction and shows recent improvement.

Regional differences in Czechia

In Czechia, regional differences in Housing burden are pronounced. Across 8 comparable regions, Praha records the highest value (15.2%) and Jihovýchod the lowest (4.7%), a gap of 10.5 percentage points.

Reading within the topic

In Czechia, 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.