Overcrowding rate by degree of urbanisation - EU-SILC survey

In 2025, the EU-27 figure for overcrowding rate by degree of urbanisation was 20.4 .

That is a 0.5% rose versus 2024 (20.3).

Over the five years before that, the EU-27 aggregate moved 3.0% higher.

Across member states, Latvia reported the highest value (45.0, 2025) and Cyprus the lowest (2.30, 2025) — a ratio of 19.6× between the two ends of the range.

The figures below come from Eurostat dataset tessi174; every value links back to the canonical source.