IE · 2022 · tessi174
Overcrowding rate by degree of urbanisation - EU-SILC survey
Ireland, 2022
In 2022, Ireland's overcrowding rate by degree of urbanisation increased by 27.7% compared to 2021, reaching 6.00.
Ireland accounts for 30.8% of the EU-27 total of 19.5.
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 grown by 7.1% (from 5.60 in 2017).
Source: Eurostat dataset tessi174, accessed via the eupublicdata pipeline.