Housing Space Per Capita in Poland Lowest In EU

At only 1.2 rooms against an EU average of 1.6, Poland's per-capita housing floorage was among the EU's lowest in 2020, the GetHome.pl website wrote on Thursday citing Eurostat. Per-capita floorage was highest in Malta, Belgium and Ireland (over 2 rooms), the website wrote, noting that according to EU rankings nearly 37 percent of Poles lived in overcrowded houses against an EU average of slightly under 18 percent.

Poland also ranked among the countries with the highest percentage of privately-owned living space (86 percent), after Romania, Slovakia, Croatia and Hungary (all over 90 percent). At the opposite end of the ranking were the EU's developed economies (Germany, Austria, Denmark, Sweden, Belgium), where the percentage of rented living floorage was much higher.