IE · 2020 · tessi174
Overcrowding rate by degree of urbanisation - EU-SILC survey
Ireland, 2020
In 2020, Ireland's overcrowding rate by degree of urbanisation decreased by 23.4% compared to 2019, reaching 4.90.
Ireland accounts for 24.7% of the EU-27 total of 19.8.
Ireland ranks 25th 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 4.3% (from 4.70 in 2015).
Source: Eurostat dataset tessi174, accessed via the eupublicdata pipeline.