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Housing cost overburden, tenants at market rent

The name at the source «Housing cost overburden rate by tenure status - EU-SILC survey»

What this number is

Among people living in a home rented at market price, it is the share whose household spends more than 40 % of its disposable income on housing. Disposable income is what the household receives, from work, investment and social benefits, after the taxes and social contributions it pays; housing allowances are deducted from both the income and the housing costs.

Down from 2024. Above the European Union average.

27,2 %

identifier sobrecarga-do-custo-da-habitacao-inquilinos-mercado-2025

Published by Eurostat (tessi164)

What share of tenants at market rent are in households where total housing costs, after deducting housing allowances, take more than 40 % of what the household receives from work, investment and social benefits, after paying taxes and social contributions (disposable income), also after deducting housing allowances?

Definition by Eurostat · Statistics Explained · Glossary: Housing cost overburden rate

Excerpt
The housing cost overburden rate is the percentage of the population living in households where the total housing costs ('net' of housing allowances) represent more than 40 % of disposable income ('net' of housing allowances).

read at the source on 08.09.2026

Definition by Eurostat · Housing cost overburden rate by tenure status - EU-SILC survey

Excerpt
Tenant, rent at market price

read at the source on 23.09.2026

Definition by Eurostat · Statistics Explained · Glossary: Equivalised disposable income

Excerpt
The equivalised disposable income is calculated in three steps: all monetary incomes received from any source by each member of a household are added up; these include income from work, investment and social benefits, plus any other household income; taxes and social contributions that have been paid, are deducted from this sum;

read at the source on 26.09.2026

Series page

https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/databrowser/view/tessi164/default/table?lang=en

Proof

Field returned

Housing cost overburden rate by tenure status - EU-SILC survey — Annual — Percentage — Tenure status: Tenant, rent at market price — Portugal — 2025: 27.2

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https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/api/dissemination/statistics/1.0/data/tessi164?format=JSON&lang=EN&geo=PT

The comparisons

Previous period
30,3source · Eurostat · 2024
European Union
18,6source · Eurostat
EU countries
All the countries

What was checked

Read at the source on
23.09.2026
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