Eurostat · 33 countries · 2023
The largest homes in Europe are not where people have the most room.
102.8m² per home · European Union · 2023
A home in Cyprus averages 149.4 m² and one in Romania 54.6 — 2.74 times the difference. Divide by the number of people living in them and the order changes.
This is floor space, averaged over every kind of home: owned and rented, flats and houses, every income group. It is the size of the dwelling, not the size of the plot, and not the size of newly built homes — those are younger and larger almost everywhere.
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Two homes of the same size are not the same home. This figure ignores how many people live there, how the space is divided, whether there is outdoor space, and what it costs. A 90 m² flat in a capital city and a 90 m² house in a village are the same number here and nothing like each other.
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| Trend 2023–2023, with breaks | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Romania | 54.6 | — | — | — | — |
| Lithuania | 74.9 | — | — | — | — |
| Montenegro | 80.3 | — | — | — | — |
| Estonia | 80.8 | — | — | — | — |
| Latvia | 81.0 | — | — | — | — |
| Bulgaria | 81.1 | — | — | — | — |
| Serbia | 87.7 | — | — | — | — |
| Hungary | 90.5 | — | — | — | — |
| Czechia | 91.4 | — | — | — | — |
| Greece | 92.7 | — | — | — | — |
| France | 99.5 | — | — | — | — |
| Poland | 99.9 | — | — | — | — |
| Albania | 99.9 | — | — | — | — |
| Croatia | 100.1 | — | — | — | — |
| Italy | 100.3 | — | — | — | — |
| Sweden | 101.2 | — | — | — | — |
| Finland | 102.0 | — | — | — | — |
| North Macedonia | 102.9 | — | — | — | — |
| Germany | 103.6 | — | — | — | — |
| Slovenia | 103.8 | — | — | — | — |
| Slovakia | 104.0 | — | — | — | — |
| Spain | 106.5 | — | — | — | — |
| Austria | 110.1 | — | — | — | — |
| Switzerland | 112.0 | — | — | — | — |
| Türkiye | 112.8 | — | — | — | — |
| Denmark | 126.6 | — | — | — | — |
| Portugal | 126.7 | — | — | — | — |
| Netherlands | 131.9 | — | — | — | — |
| Norway | 137.3 | — | — | — | — |
| Malta | 138.1 | — | — | — | — |
| Luxembourg | 139.9 | — | — | — | — |
| Belgium | 145.7 | — | — | — | — |
| Cyprus | 149.4 | — | — | — | — |
Eurostat publishes this table for 2023 alone, so there is no line to draw and no past to compare with.
Our own calculation
Floor space per person
Divide the average home by the average household and 30 of the 33 countries change places.
The spread widens when you do this. Measured by floor area the largest country is 2.74 times the smallest; measured per person it is 3.14 times. Countries with large homes tend to have large households, and the two partly cancel out: Türkiye goes from 9th to 25th, Slovakia goes from 13th to 29th and North Macedonia goes from 16th to 30th.
This is a ratio of two averages, not an average of ratios. It is one published figure divided by another, so it describes a country and not a household in it — no home holds 2.3 people. Both figures come from the same survey, EU-SILC, and the same year, 2023; household size is published up to 2025, and this calculation uses 2023 on both sides rather than the newest of each.
| Country | m² per home | People | m² per person |
|---|---|---|---|
| Norway | 137.3 | 2.0 | 68.7 |
| Belgium | 145.7 | 2.3 | 63.3 |
| Denmark | 126.6 | 2.0 | 63.3 |
| Netherlands | 131.9 | 2.1 | 62.8 |
| Luxembourg | 139.9 | 2.3 | 60.8 |
| Cyprus | 149.4 | 2.5 | 59.8 |
| Malta | 138.1 | 2.4 | 57.5 |
| Finland | 102.0 | 1.9 | 53.7 |
| Germany | 103.6 | 2.0 | 51.8 |
| Switzerland | 112.0 | 2.2 | 50.9 |
| Portugal | 126.7 | 2.5 | 50.7 |
| Sweden | 101.2 | 2.0 | 50.6 |
| Austria | 110.1 | 2.2 | 50.0 |
| Italy | 100.3 | 2.2 | 45.6 |
| France | 99.5 | 2.2 | 45.2 |
| Slovenia | 103.8 | 2.4 | 43.3 |
| Spain | 106.5 | 2.5 | 42.6 |
| Czechia | 91.4 | 2.3 | 39.7 |
| Lithuania | 74.9 | 1.9 | 39.4 |
| Hungary | 90.5 | 2.3 | 39.3 |
| Greece | 92.7 | 2.4 | 38.6 |
| Estonia | 80.8 | 2.1 | 38.5 |
| Croatia | 100.1 | 2.7 | 37.1 |
| Latvia | 81.0 | 2.2 | 36.8 |
| Türkiye | 112.8 | 3.1 | 36.4 |
| Bulgaria | 81.1 | 2.3 | 35.3 |
| Poland | 99.9 | 2.9 | 34.4 |
| Serbia | 87.7 | 2.6 | 33.7 |
| Slovakia | 104.0 | 3.1 | 33.5 |
| North Macedonia | 102.9 | 3.1 | 33.2 |
| Albania | 99.9 | 3.7 | 27.0 |
| Montenegro | 80.3 | 3.3 | 24.3 |
| Romania | 54.6 | 2.5 | 21.8 |
| European Union | 102.8 | 2.3 | 44.7 |
What the numbers say
Wealth explains less of this than you would think
separates the largest homes from the smallest — Cyprus at 149.4 m² and Romania at 54.6 m², a gap of 94.8 m². The five largest are Cyprus, Belgium, Luxembourg, Malta, Norway; the five smallest are Romania, Lithuania, Montenegro, Estonia, Latvia.
One year, no trend
Eurostat publishes this table for 2023 alone. There is no earlier year to compare with, so this page shows none — not a line through a single point.
The big economies sit in the middle and close together: France 99.5, Poland 99.9, Italy 100.3, Germany 103.6, Spain 106.5, Netherlands 131.9. Above them are small rich countries and the Mediterranean; below them is central and eastern Europe. But the richest countries are not at the top, and Cyprus, with the largest homes of all, is 6th per person.
Method
How this is measured
Published by Eurostat. The only figure we calculate ourselves is floor space per person, and it is marked as ours.
- What the figure is
- The average useful floor area of a dwelling in square metres, from EU-SILC, the European survey on income and living conditions. Eurostat publishes it by income quintile and by tenure status; this page takes the total of both, which is the figure for all households in the country.
- What it is not
- It is not space per person — that calculation is further up this page and is ours, not Eurostat's. It is not the size of new homes, not a count of rooms, and not a distribution: Eurostat publishes one number per country, so there is no percentile to be had, only which side of the average you fall on.
- Coverage
- 33 countries have a figure for 2023. The United States, Canada and Australia are not in this dataset.
- Series breaks
- None, because there is nothing to break: Eurostat has published this table for 2023 only. A single year cannot be compared with its own past, and this page does not pretend otherwise.
- Dataset Eurostat
ilc_lvho32, Average size of dwelling by income quintile and tenure status - Series 2023
- Last updated by Eurostat 2026-05-13
- Retrieved 2026-10-25
- DOI10.2908/ILC_LVHO32
- Eurostat metadataexplanatory texts
- Household size Eurostat
ilc_lvph01at 2023, used only for the per-person calculation — its own page is here
Licence: Eurostat data may be reused, including commercially, with attribution. How we handle data is on the method page.