MT · 2025 · tespm140
Housing cost overburden rate
Malta, 2025
In 2025, Malta's housing cost overburden rate increased by 1.7% compared to 2024, reaching 12.0.
Malta accounts for 77.9% of the EU-27 total of 15.4.
Malta ranks 15th 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 114.3% (from 5.60 in 2020).
Source: Eurostat dataset tespm140, accessed via the eupublicdata pipeline.