IE · 2023 · tessi174
Overcrowding rate by degree of urbanisation - EU-SILC survey
Ireland, 2023
In 2023, Ireland's overcrowding rate by degree of urbanisation decreased by 33.3% compared to 2022, reaching 4.00.
Ireland accounts for 20.1% of the EU-27 total of 19.9.
Ireland ranks 25th 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 27.3% (from 5.50 in 2018).
Source: Eurostat dataset tessi174, accessed via the eupublicdata pipeline.