Slovakia comes next with a home ownership rate of 90.3%, followed by Lithuania with 89.9%, Croatia – 89.7%, and Hungary – 89.1%. Less than two-thirds of the population owned their dwelling in Germany – 52.5% and Austria – 57.2%, followed by Denmark – 63.3%, the United Kingdom -64.8%, and France – 65.1%.

At the EU level, 70.1% of the population were living in dwellings they owned in 2014.

Eurostat data also shows that more than half of Romania’s population were living in overcrowded houses (52.3%) in 2014. Romania also ranked first in this category, followed by Hungary – 44.6%, Poland – 44.2%, Bulgaria – 43.3%, Croatia – 42.1%, Latvia – 39.8%, and Slovakia – 38.6%. In the EU, 17.1% of the population were living in overcrowded households.

In terms of costs, 11.4% of EU’s population were facing housing cost overburden, which means that they spent more than 40% of their disposable income on housing. By countries, Greece ranks first with a share of 40.7%, followed at a distance by Germany – 15.9%, Denmark – 15.6%, the Netherlands – 15.4%, and Romania – 14.9%. On the other hand, Malta (1.6% of the total population), Cyprus (4%), France and Finland (both 5.1%) registered the lowest housing cost overburden rates. (source: Romania-insider.com)