In 2019, 25 percent of non-EU citizens living in the EU-27 faced a significant burden on their disposable income from housing costs, compared with 19 percent for citizens from other EU countries and 9 percent for national citizens, according to Eurostat. Between the 2010 and 2019, the housing cost overburden rate in the EU-27 observed for non-EU citizens rose from 25 percent in 2010 to a peak of 31 percent in 2014 before falling back to 25 percent in 2019. For citizens of other EU Member States, the rate was around 23 percent during the period 2010-2012, before declining to a level of 17 percent in 2018; in 2019 the rate increased to 19 percent. By contrast, the housing cost overburden rate for national citizens living in the EU-27 fluctuated around 10 percent during the period 2010-2018, with a low of 9 percent in 2010 and a high of 11 percent in 2013 and 2014. In 2019, the rate fell back to 9 percent. In 2019, the highest housing cost overburden rate for non-EU citizens was recorded in Greece (70 percent), ahead of Bulgaria (40 percent), Spain (34 percent) and Poland (30 percent), informed Eurostat.
