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Romania: Housing Space per Person

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

Romania

Latest value

· 2025

1.10 Rooms per person

EU 1.64 · -0.5 pp vs Europe

European ranking

28 / 30

No change compared with previous year

Recent trend

Open trend

Population

19.0M

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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Regional map

· 2025 · 8 regions

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Internal regions

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

  1. 1

    Sud-Vest Oltenia

    +18.18

    1.30

  2. 2

    Sud-Est

    +9.09

    1.20

  3. 2

    Sud-Muntenia

    +9.09

    1.20

  4. 2

    Bucureşti-Ilfov

    +9.09

    1.20

  5. 5

    Nord-Est

    +0.00

    1.10

  6. 5

    Vest

    +0.00

    1.10

  7. 7

    Nord-Vest

    -9.09

    1.00

  8. 7

    Centru

    -9.09

    1.00

More context on this indicator

At a glance

Romania 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 points to broader pressure. Regional evidence also shows internal variation.

European comparison in Romania

In Romania, Rooms per person stands clearly worse than the European benchmark: 1.1 rooms per person versus 1.6 rooms per person in 2025, a large gap of 0.5 rooms per person.

Recent trend

In Romania, the medium-term pattern is broadly stable: the value moved from 1.1 in 2020 to 1.1 in 2025. The latest value also changes little from 1.1 in 2024, confirming the stable reading.

Regional differences in Romania

In Romania, regional values for Rooms per person are relatively close. Across 8 comparable regions, Sud-Vest Oltenia records the highest value (1.3 rooms per person) and Nord-Vest the lowest (1.0 rooms per person), a gap of 0.3 rooms per person.

Reading within the topic

In Romania, the evidence for Quality of Life & Household Conditions leans towards pressure compared with Europe; related indicators do not provide a sufficiently strong counter-signal. Material recent changes among related indicators lean towards improvement.