IE · 2025 · tessi172
Overcrowding rate by poverty status - EU-SILC survey
Ireland, 2025
In 2025, Ireland's overcrowding rate by poverty status increased by 8.0% compared to 2024, reaching 5.40.
Ireland accounts for 32.1% of the EU-27 total of 16.8.
Ireland ranks 24th out of 27 EU member states with reported data — in the bottom half of the distribution.
Over the past five years, the indicator has grown by 80.0% (from 3.00 in 2020).
Source: Eurostat dataset tessi172, accessed via the eupublicdata pipeline.