EU 18.63
· European ranking
8 / 30
Up 1 positions compared with previous year
Greece: Overcrowded Housing
An editorial snapshot of country living conditions with trend, regional spread, and context links.
Latest value
· 2025
28.30% of population
EU 18.63 · +9.7 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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At a glance
Greece performs less favourably than the European benchmark on Overcrowding rate, with a large gap. The trend context points to recent departure from stability. The wider topic context points to broader pressure.
European comparison in Greece
In Greece, Overcrowding stands clearly worse than the European benchmark: 28.3% versus 18.6% in 2025, a large gap of 9.7 percentage points.
Recent trend
In Greece, the medium-term pattern is broadly stable: the value moved from 29.00% in 2020 to 28.30% in 2025. The primary pattern was broadly stable, but the latest step, from 27.00% in 2024 to 28.30% in 2025, departs from that stability with a deterioration.
Reading within the topic
In Greece, the evidence for Housing & Energy Stress leans towards pressure compared with Europe; related indicators do not provide a sufficiently strong counter-signal. Recent changes among related indicators are also mixed, with improvement in some and deterioration in others.