IE · 2025 · tessi165
Housing cost overburden rate by degree of urbanisation - EU-SILC survey
Ireland, 2025
In 2025, Ireland's housing cost overburden rate by degree of urbanisation increased by 52.6% compared to 2024, reaching 8.70.
Ireland accounts for 90.6% of the EU-27 total of 9.60.
Ireland ranks 12th out of 27 EU member states with reported data — in the top half of the distribution.
Over the past five years, the indicator has grown by 19.2% (from 7.30 in 2020).
Source: Eurostat dataset tessi165, accessed via the eupublicdata pipeline.