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Slovakia: Housing Space per Person

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

Latest value

Β· 2025

1.20 Rooms per person

EU 1.64 Β· -0.4 pp vs Europe

European ranking

25 / 30

Down 3 positions compared with previous year

Recent trend

Open trend

Population

5.4M

Country population Β· 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

Β· 2025 Β· 4 regions

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Internal regions

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

  1. 1
    +0.00

    1.20

  2. 1
    +0.00

    1.20

  3. 1
    +0.00

    1.20

  4. 4
    -8.33

    1.10

More context on this indicator

At a glance

Slovakia performs less favourably than the European benchmark on Average number of rooms per person, with a large gap. The trend context points to recent departure from stability. The wider topic context points to broader pressure. Regional evidence also shows internal variation.

European comparison in Slovakia

In Slovakia, 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 Slovakia, the medium-term pattern is broadly stable: the value moved from 1.2 in 2020 to 1.2 in 2025. The primary pattern was broadly stable, but the latest step, from 1.1 in 2024 to 1.2 in 2025, departs from that stability with an improvement.

Regional differences in Slovakia

In Slovakia, regional values for Rooms per person are relatively close. Across 4 comparable regions, Bratislava Region records the highest value (1.2 rooms per person) and Eastern Slovakia the lowest (1.1 rooms per person), a gap of 0.1 rooms per person.

Reading within the topic

In Slovakia, the evidence for Quality of Life & Household Conditions 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.