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More than 96% of Romania’s population lived in a personally owned dwelling in 2020, the highest percentage among European Union member states, data published Thursday by Eurostat show, Agerpres reports.
While at EU level, 69.7% of the population owned their own home in 2020, down slightly from 69.8% in 2019, in Romania the trend is the opposite, with the percentage of those living in their own home rising from 95.8% to 96.1%.
Other countries with a high degree of homeownership are Slovakia (92%), Hungary and Croatia (both 91%).
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Eurostat points out that in most countries, with the exception of Germany, the percentage of those who own the dwelling in which they live is higher than that of renters. In Germany, half (50.4%) of the population own the dwellings they live in while the other half (49.6%) live in rented accommodation. However, the data show that for Germany, the percentage of owners decreases year-on-year, from 51.1% in 2019 to 50.4% in 2020, while the percentage of renters increases, from 48.9% to 49.6%.
Other countries where the percentage of homeowners is low are Austria (55%) and Denmark (59%).
Eurostat data also show that at EU level, 53% of the population live in a house and 46% in an apartment, while the remaining 1% live in other types of accommodation such as houses on rivers, caravans, etc. Ireland with 92% is the country with the highest percentage of inhabitants living in a house, at the other end of the scale is Spain where 66% live in an apartment.
In Romania, 65.9% of inhabitants live in a house and 34.1% live in an apartment. But Romania ranks last in the EU when it comes to housing size, measured by the average number of rooms per person. While the EU average is 1.6 rooms per person, in Romania it is 1.1 rooms per person. The best performers are Malta with 2.3 rooms per person, followed by Belgium and Ireland, both with 2.1 rooms per person.
Also, when it comes to housing quality, which can be measured in several ways including the percentage of the population living in a crowded dwelling, Romania is the country with the highest rate of crowding (45.1%), while at EU level less than 18% of the population lived in a crowded dwelling in 2020, down from 19.1% in 2010.