Romania remains country with higest percentage of homeowners in EU

Over 96% of the population in Romania in 2020 lived in their personal property, being the largest percentage registered among the member states of the European Union, according to the data published by Eurostat on Thursday, agerpres reports.

While at the level of the European Union, 69.7% of people were living in the home they owned, with a slight drop from 69.8% in 2019, in Romania the tendency is opposite, the percentage of those living in their personal homes going up from 95.8% to 96.1%.

In Romania, 65.9% of people are living in a house and 34.1% live in a flat apartment. But Romania is ranked last in the EU when it comes to the size of the home, measured by the average number of rooms per person. While in the EU the average is 1.6 rooms per person, in Romania it is 1.1 rooms per person.

Furthermore, regarding the quality of living, which can be measured in many ways, including by the percentage of people that are living in a crowded home, Romania is the country with the highest crowding rate (45.1%), while in the EU less than 18% of the population in 2020 lived in a crowded home, dropping from 19.1% in 2010.