EU 18.63
· European ranking
4 / 30
No change compared with previous year
Turkey: Overcrowded Housing
An editorial snapshot of country living conditions with trend, regional spread, and context links.
Latest value
· 2025
37.80% of population
EU 18.63 · +19.2 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
Turkey performs less favourably than the European benchmark on Overcrowding rate, with a large gap. The trend context points to confirmed improvement. The wider topic context points to broader pressure.
European comparison in Turkey
In Turkey, Overcrowding stands clearly worse than the European benchmark: 37.8% versus 18.6% in 2025, a large gap of 19.2 percentage points.
Recent trend
In Turkey, the medium-term pattern shows improvement: the value moved from 40.00% in 2020 to 37.80% in 2025. The latest step, from 38.20% in 2024 to 37.80% in 2025, confirms the improvement. The recent signal has similar intensity to the primary one.
Reading within the topic
In Turkey, the evidence for Housing & Energy Stress 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.