Housing cost overburden rate

In 2024, Ireland's housing cost overburden rate decreased by 4.3% compared to 2023, reaching 9.00.

Ireland accounts for 54.9% of the EU-27 total of 16.4.

Ireland ranks 24th 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 13.5% (from 10.4 in 2019).

Source: Eurostat dataset tespm140, accessed via the eupublicdata pipeline.