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Poland: Housing Space per Person

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

Latest value

· 2025

1.20 Rooms per person

EU 1.64 · -0.4 pp vs Europe

European ranking

25 / 30

Down 1 positions compared with previous year

Population

36.5M

Country population · 2025

What this indicator measures

Measures the average number of rooms available in a household relative to the number of people living there, using Eurostat rules on which habitable spaces count as rooms.

Higher values generally represent a more favorable situation.

Data source: Eurostat Average number of rooms per person ilc_lvho04d

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· 2025 · 17 regions

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Internal regions

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

  1. 1
    +8.33

    1.30

  2. 1
    +8.33

    1.30

  3. 1
    +8.33

    1.30

  4. 4
    +0.00

    1.20

  5. 4
    +0.00

    1.20

  6. 4
    +0.00

    1.20

  7. 4
    +0.00

    1.20

  8. 4
    +0.00

    1.20

  9. 4
    +0.00

    1.20

  10. 4
    +0.00

    1.20

  11. 4
    +0.00

    1.20

  12. 4
    +0.00

    1.20

  13. 4
    +0.00

    1.20

  14. 14
    -8.33

    1.10

  15. 14
    -8.33

    1.10

  16. 14
    -8.33

    1.10

  17. 14
    -8.33

    1.10

More context on this indicator

At a glance

Poland performs less favourably than the European benchmark on Average number of rooms per person, with a large gap. The trend context points to confirmed stability. The wider topic context is mixed, combining pressure signals and relative strengths. Regional evidence also shows internal variation.

European comparison in Poland

In Poland, Rooms per person stands clearly worse than the European benchmark: 1.2 rooms per person versus 1.6 rooms per person in 2025, a large gap of 0.4 rooms per person.

Recent trend

In Poland, the medium-term pattern is broadly stable: the value moved from 1.2 in 2020 to 1.2 in 2025. The latest value also changes little from 1.2 in 2024, confirming the stable reading.

Regional differences in Poland

In Poland, regional values for Rooms per person are relatively close. Across 17 comparable regions, Śląskie records the highest value (1.3 rooms per person) and Małopolskie the lowest (1.1 rooms per person), a gap of 0.2 rooms per person.

Reading within the topic

In Poland, Quality of Life & Household Conditions 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.