Proportion of full-time employees in single-adult households reporting total housing costs as more of a burden, EU-27, 2023 (%)
Figure 17: Proportion of full-time employees in single-adult households reporting total housing costs as more of a burden, EU-27, 2023 (%)
Notes: Data refer to the share of full-time employees living alone who report living in a household where total housing costs are perceived as a ‘heavy burden’. The phrasing of the question differs slightly between countries, and it was not always explicitly mentioned that these costs also include utility costs. The ‘non-urban’ category includes both rural areas and suburbs and towns. Data exclude Ireland, as the responses on the perception of housing cost burden were not made available by Eurostat.
Source: Eurofound calculations based on EU-SILC 2023 (wages refer to 2022).
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