Housing cost overburden rate by tenure status - EU-SILC survey

In 2024, Malta's housing cost overburden rate by tenure status decreased by 43.3% compared to 2023, reaching 1.70.

Malta accounts for 34.0% of the EU-27 total of 5.00.

Malta ranks 21st 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 39.3% (from 2.80 in 2019).

Source: Eurostat dataset tessi164, accessed via the eupublicdata pipeline.