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Norway: Housing Affordability

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

Norway

Latest value

· 2025

13.50% of population

EU 7.79 · +5.7 pp vs Europe

European ranking

3 / 30

Down 1 positions compared with previous year

Population

5.6M

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 · 6 regions

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Internal regions

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

  1. 1

    Trøndelag

    +45.93

    19.70

  2. 2

    Oslo og Viken

    +11.11

    15.00

  3. 3

    Nord-Norge

    -7.41

    12.50

  4. 3

    Agder og Sør-Østlandet

    -7.41

    12.50

  5. 5

    Vestlandet

    -18.52

    11.00

  6. 6

    Innlandet

    -29.63

    9.50

More context on this indicator

At a glance

Norway performs less favourably than the European benchmark on Housing cost overburden rate, with a large gap. 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 Norway

In Norway, Housing burden stands clearly worse than the European benchmark: 13.5% versus 7.8% in 2025, a large gap of 5.7 percentage points.

Recent trend

In Norway, the medium-term pattern shows deterioration: the value moved from 10.90% in 2021 to 13.50% in 2025. The latest step, from 15.40% in 2024 to 13.50% in 2025, reverses the previous direction and shows recent improvement.

Regional differences in Norway

In Norway, Housing burden shows noticeable regional variation. Across 6 comparable regions, Trøndelag records the highest value (19.7%) and Innlandet the lowest (9.5%), a gap of 10.2 percentage points.

Reading within the topic

In Norway, 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.