IE · 2020 · tespm140
Housing cost overburden rate
Ireland, 2020
In 2020, Ireland's housing cost overburden rate decreased by 19.2% compared to 2019, reaching 8.40.
Ireland accounts for 53.8% of the EU-27 total of 15.6.
Ireland ranks 19th out of 27 EU member states with reported data — in the bottom half of the distribution.
Over the past five years, the indicator has fallen by 10.6% (from 9.40 in 2015).
Source: Eurostat dataset tespm140, accessed via the eupublicdata pipeline.