EU 18.63
· European ranking
11 / 30
No change compared with previous year
Italy: Overcrowded Housing
An editorial snapshot of country living conditions with trend, regional spread, and context links.
Latest value
· 2025
24.30% of population
EU 18.63 · +5.7 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
Italy performs less favourably than the European benchmark on Overcrowding rate, with a large gap. The trend context points to recent reversal. The wider topic context is mixed, combining pressure signals and relative strengths.
European comparison in Italy
In Italy, Overcrowding stands clearly worse than the European benchmark: 24.3% versus 18.6% in 2025, a large gap of 5.7 percentage points.
Recent trend
In Italy, the medium-term pattern shows improvement: the value moved from 26.10% in 2020 to 24.30% in 2025. The latest step, from 23.90% in 2024 to 24.30% in 2025, reverses the previous direction and shows recent deterioration.
Reading within the topic
In Italy, 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 deterioration and warrant monitoring.