EU 18.63
· European ranking
12 / 30
No change compared with previous year
Estonia: Overcrowded Housing
An editorial snapshot of country living conditions with trend, regional spread, and context links.
Latest value
· 2025
17.90% of population
EU 18.63 · -0.7 pp vs Europe
What this indicator measures
Measures the share of people living in a dwelling with fewer rooms than required under the Eurostat overcrowding standard. The minimum number of rooms depends on household composition and the ages of its members.
Lower values generally represent a more favorable situation.
Data source: Eurostat Overcrowding rate ilc_lvho05a
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Internal regions
No regional breakdown available for this indicator.
More context on this indicator
At a glance
Estonia performs more favourably than the European benchmark on Overcrowding 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.
European comparison in Estonia
In Estonia, Overcrowding is close to the European benchmark and slightly better: 17.9% versus 18.6% in 2025, a gap of 0.7 percentage points.
Recent trend
In Estonia, the medium-term pattern shows deterioration: the value moved from 12.70% in 2020 to 17.90% in 2025. The latest step, from 18.40% in 2024 to 17.90% in 2025, reverses the previous direction and shows recent improvement.
Reading within the topic
In Estonia, 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.