Ranking of countries with the highest percentage of homeowners

Ranking of countries with the highest percentage of homeowners

Eurostat has estimated the number of property owners in Europe. The leaders are Romania (about 97% of the population lives in its own property), Bulgaria (96%), Lithuania and Slovakia (95%), Latvia, Slovenia and Poland (90%). The smallest number of homeowners was registered in Switzerland (5%), the Netherlands, Iceland, Sweden and Denmark (from 8% to 10%).

As for the type of buildings, the largest number of EU citizens, living in the apartments, observed in Latvia (65%), Spain (65%) and Estonia (64%). Apartments are not popular in Norway (5%), the UK, Belgium and the Netherlands (10%), but citizens of these countries respect their own homes (60% to 70%).

According to European statistics, about 41% of the EU population lives in apartments, 34% - in detached houses and 23% - in the townhouses. The greatest amount of space is having the inhabitants of the Netherlands (the percentage of overcrowding is 1.7%) and Belgium (2.2%), the lowest - Romania (54%), Bulgaria, Poland and Hungary (47%). In the EU average overpopulation is 17%.

Every fifth inhabitant of the EU pays the rent of their homes very little or no pay, Eurostat data shows.