Share of households living in rented housing in Europe 2023, by country

Switzerland, Germany, and Austria were the European countries with the highest share of the population living in rental housing in 2023. In Switzerland, approximately 58 percent of households occupied rental housing, nearly twice the average for the European Union. Thanks to a high homeownership rate, the share of tenants among the population in many East and South European countries was below 10 percent. These countries included, Albania, Romania, Slovakia, and Serbia.