PT · 2025 · tessi174
Overcrowding rate by degree of urbanisation - EU-SILC survey
Portugal, 2025
In 2025, Portugal's overcrowding rate by degree of urbanisation increased by 7.0% compared to 2024, reaching 13.7.
Portugal accounts for 67.2% of the EU-27 total of 20.4.
Portugal ranks 20th 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 28.0% (from 10.7 in 2020).
Source: Eurostat dataset tessi174, accessed via the eupublicdata pipeline.