🇳🇴Norway housing cost overburden rate
Norway's housing cost overburden rate is 13.5% as of 2025, from official Eurostat data. It fell from 15.4% the previous year. Over the period shown it has ranged from 4.3% to 15.4%. That is 5.7 percentage points above the euro-area average of 7.8% — the 4th of 30 European countries that report it.
Housing cost overburden rate · Norway
13.5%
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Source: Eurostat (ilc_lvho07a) · data through 2025 · released 2026-09-17 · modifications: none
The housing cost overburden rate is the share of the population living in households that spend more than 40% of their disposable income on housing, after housing allowances. Housing costs include utilities such as water, electricity, gas and heating. It comes from the EU-SILC household survey and is published once a year.
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Norway housing cost overburden rate — frequently asked questions
- What is Norway's housing cost overburden rate?
- Norway's housing cost overburden rate is 13.5% as of 2025, from official Eurostat data.
- How does Norway's housing cost overburden rate compare with the euro area?
- It is the 4th-highest of 30 European countries that report it, against a euro-area average of 7.8%.
- Is Norway's housing cost overburden rate rising or falling?
- It fell from 15.4% to 13.5% in the latest reading (2025).
- What does “housing cost overburden rate” measure?
- The housing cost overburden rate is the share of the population living in households that spend more than 40% of their disposable income on housing, after housing allowances. Housing costs include utilities such as water, electricity, gas and heating. It comes from the EU-SILC household survey and is published once a year.