Housing cost overburden rate (annual)

Annual share of the population living in households where total housing costs (net of housing allowances) represent more than 40% of disposable income, for EU member states, EFTA countries, EU candidate countries and EU/euro-area aggregates. Eurostat dataset ilc_mded01 ('Housing cost overburden rate'), filtered to total population and all income groups, from EU-SILC. Each row is one (year, country). Method: Eurostat compiles EU-SILC microdata transmitted by the member states; housing costs include rent or mortgage interest, utilities and insurance; non-EU/EFTA/candidate countries are dropped (same licensing rule as the other Eurostat datasets). Units: percent of population. Caveats: EU-SILC income data refer to the year before the survey year; the 2021 EU-SILC methodological revision breaks comparability with pre-2021 values for some countries; Kosovo (XK) and the UK are dropped by the connector's commercial-use geo rule; the EU, EU27_2020, EU28, EU27_2007, EA, EA18, EA19, EA20 and EA21 aggregates are included as published. Coverage: 44 geographic units after the geo rule, 2003 to the present, annual. Provenance: Eurostat keyless JSON-stat API, free reuse with attribution (Commission Decision 2011/833/EU) - please cite Eurostat. Primary key: (year, country_code). Join keys: country_code (ISO 3166-1 alpha-3), year. Cadence: refreshed yearly; Eurostat updates EU-SILC indicators in autumn. Sample use: filter country_code='GRC' to track Greece's housing cost overburden rate over time.