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Date: January 11, 2021 Rent and rent to income ratio of main tenant households

Tables on the subject: Rent and rent to income ratio of main tenant households by Land 2018

Press release No. N 067 of 17 November 2022 10.5% of Germany's population lived in overcrowded dwellings in 2021

...400,000 new dwellings, including 100,000 social dwellings, will be constructed every year to counteract the lack of affordable dwellings, according to Federal Government plans. Roughly 8.6% million people in Germany lived in overcrowded dwellings in 2021. That is 10.5% of the population, as reported by the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) on the basis of first results of the survey of income and living conditions (EU-SILC) 2021. ...

Press release No. N066 of 16 November 2022 37.9% of students in Germany at risk of poverty in 2021

...Just over three quarters (76.1%) of them were at risk of poverty. For comparison: 15.8% of the total population in Germany were at risk of poverty last year....

Date: October 30, 2019 13% of the population perceive housing costs as a burden

...13% of the people living in Germany considered monthly housing costs a heavy economic burden in 2018. Among the population at risk of poverty, this applied to just 24%. Compared with 2008, the perceived burden reduces (2008 total: 24%; at risk of poverty: 36%)....

Press release No. 506 of 4 November 2021 8.5 million people in Germany lived in overcrowded dwellings in 2020

...This may have been particularly stressful for people living in dwellings that are considered as overcrowded by European definition. In Germany, just under 8.5 million people lived in such dwellings in 2020. Based on results of the EU-SILC (LEBEN IN EUROPA) household survey, the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) reports that the overcrowding rate was 10.3%. ...

Press release No. 129 of 31 March 2023 Households spent an average of 27.8% of their income on rent in 2022

...In 2022, the approximately 19.9 million main tenant households in Germany spent an average of 27.8% of their income on rent. This rent to income ratio indicates the proportion of household net income that is spent on gross rent exclusive of heating expenses (defined as net rent exclusive of heating expenses plus operating costs that are independent of consumption). ...

Press release No. N 079 of 26 November 2020 6.4 million people in Germany lived in overcrowded dwellings in 2019

Activities outside the home have been strongly limited by the measures to contain the coronavirus pandemic. This can be particularly stressful for people living in overcrowded dwellings. In 2019, approximately 6.4 million people lived in such an …

Press release No. N 054 of 26 August 2022 Housing costs: 10.7% of the population regarded as overburdened in 2021

...For millions of people in Germany, the money spent on housing accounts for large part of their cost of living. Housing expenditure and rents in particular usually are fixed monthly costs with little nor no reduction potential. In 2021, housing costs accounted for an average 23.3% of households’ disposable income, according to the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis). ...

Press release No. 318 of 28 July 2022 Stock of dwellings, end of 2021: 43.1 million dwellings

There were 43.1 million dwellings in Germany at the end of 2021. The Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) also reports that the stock of dwellings rose by 0.7%, or roughly 280,000 dwellings, on the previous year (2020: 42.8 million). Compared with …

Press release No. 326 of 8 July 2021 Stock of dwellings, end of 2020: 42.8 million dwellings

...At the end of 2020, the number of dwellings in residential and non-residential buildings amounted to 42.8 million in Germany. The Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) also reports that the stock of dwellings rose by 0.7%, or 290,966 dwellings, on the previous year. Compared with 2010, the stock of dwellings increased by 5.7% or 2.3 million dwellings. ...

Press release No. 428 of 29 October 2020 14% of the population affected by excessive housing costs in 2019

...On average, people in Germany spend 26% of their income on housing....

Press release No. 281 of 29 July 2020 Dwelling stock of 42.5 million dwellings at the end of 2019

...At the end of 2019, the number of dwellings in residential and non-residential buildings amounted to 42.5 million in Germany. The Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) also reports that the stock of dwellings compared with the year 2010 increased by 2.0 million or 5.0 %. There were 511 dwellings per 1,000 inhabitants at the end of 2019, which was an increase of 16 dwellings per 1,000 inhabitants compared with 9 years earlier....

Press release No. N 01 of 1 October 2019 Housing in 2018: particularly high rents and rental burden in metropolises

...Consequently, their rental expenditure is 12% higher than the average net rent exclusive of heating expenses in Germany (6.90 euros)....

Press release No. 285 of 29 July 2019 Dwelling stock of 42.2 million dwellings at the end of 2018

...At the end of 2018, the number of dwellings in residential and non-residential buildings amounted to 42.2 million in Germany. The Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) also reports that the stock of dwellings compared with the year 2010 increased by 1.8 million or 4.3%. There were 509 dwellings per 1,000 inhabitants at the end of 2018, which was an increase of 14 dwellings per 1,000 inhabitants compared with 8 years earlier (2010: 495 dwellings)....

Dwelling stock, Germany

Gross rent exclusive of heating expenses, 2022