Eurostat · 31 countries · 2025
The largest households in Europe hold nearly twice as many people as the smallest.
2.3people per household · European Union · 2025
In Lithuania the average household is 1.8 people. In Türkiye it is 3.1. Not a gap of a few percent — one is 1.72 times the other.
An average household is not a family. It counts everyone living at one address, so a country full of people living alone scores low whether they are students, divorced or widowed. The figure says how many people share a roof, and nothing about who they are to each other.
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| Trend 2003–2025, with breaks | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lithuania | 1.8 | — | — | — | Trend 2005 to 2025. |
| Denmark | 1.9 | — | — | — | Trend 2003 to 2025. |
| Finland | 1.9 | — | — | — | Trend 2004 to 2025. |
| Germany | 2.0 | — | — | — | Trend 2005 to 2025. Series breaks in 2020. |
| Sweden | 2.0 | — | — | — | Trend 2004 to 2025. Series breaks in 2008. |
| Norway | 2.0 | — | — | — | Trend 2003 to 2025. Series breaks in 2021. |
| Estonia | 2.1 | — | — | — | Trend 2004 to 2025. Series breaks in 2014. |
| France | 2.1 | — | — | — | Trend 2004 to 2025. Series breaks in 2020, 2022. |
| Netherlands | 2.1 | — | — | — | Trend 2005 to 2025. Series breaks in 2016. |
| Belgium | 2.2 | — | — | — | Trend 2003 to 2025. Series breaks in 2019. |
| Bulgaria | 2.2 | — | — | — | Trend 2005 to 2025. Series breaks in 2016. |
| Italy | 2.2 | — | — | — | Trend 2004 to 2025. |
| Latvia | 2.2 | — | — | — | Trend 2005 to 2025. |
| Austria | 2.2 | — | — | — | Trend 2003 to 2025. Series breaks in 2008. |
| Switzerland 2024 | 2.2 | — | — | — | Trend 2007 to 2024. Series breaks in 2014. |
| Czechia | 2.3 | — | — | — | Trend 2005 to 2025. |
| Luxembourg | 2.3 | — | — | — | Trend 2003 to 2025. Series breaks in 2016, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2025. |
| Hungary | 2.3 | — | — | — | Trend 2005 to 2025. Series breaks in 2019. |
| Greece | 2.4 | — | — | — | Trend 2003 to 2025. |
| Malta | 2.4 | — | — | — | Trend 2005 to 2025. |
| Portugal | 2.4 | — | — | — | Trend 2004 to 2025. |
| Slovenia | 2.4 | — | — | — | Trend 2005 to 2025. |
| Spain | 2.5 | — | — | — | Trend 2004 to 2025. Series breaks in 2009. |
| Cyprus | 2.5 | — | — | — | Trend 2005 to 2025. Series breaks in 2008. |
| Romania | 2.5 | — | — | — | Trend 2007 to 2025. |
| Iceland 2020 | 2.5 | — | — | — | Trend 2004 to 2020. |
| Croatia | 2.6 | — | — | — | Trend 2010 to 2025. |
| Serbia | 2.6 | — | — | — | Trend 2013 to 2025. |
| Ireland | 2.7 | — | — | — | Trend 2003 to 2025. Series breaks in 2019, 2020. |
| Poland | 2.8 | — | — | — | Trend 2005 to 2025. |
| Montenegro 2024 | 2.8 | — | — | — | Trend 2013 to 2024. |
| North Macedonia 2024 | 3.0 | — | — | — | Trend 2010 to 2024. Series breaks in 2021. |
| Slovakia | 3.1 | — | — | — | Trend 2005 to 2025. |
| Albania | 3.1 | — | — | — | Trend 2017 to 2025. |
| Türkiye | 3.1 | — | — | — | Trend 2006 to 2025. |
The gap is men minus women, so a positive number means women reach the midpoint earlier. A year next to a country means Eurostat has no 2025 figure for it, and the row shows that year instead. Trend lines are not drawn across series breaks (the small notches): in 2025 the EU Labour Force Survey was reorganized, and 1 of 35 countries carry a break there.
What the numbers say
A line runs from the north-west to the south-east
the difference between the largest and the smallest average household. The five smallest are Lithuania, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Sweden; the five largest are Ireland, Poland, Slovakia, Albania, Türkiye.
No trend to show
Eurostat flags a break in the series in 2025, the latest year itself, so there is no window in which this figure can be compared with its own past.
The pattern is geographic before it is anything else. Households shrink as you move north and west and grow as you move south and east, and the big economies sit close together in the middle: Germany 2.0, France 2.1, Netherlands 2.1, Italy 2.2, Spain 2.5, Poland 2.8. Whatever drives the difference, it is not simply wealth.
Method
How this is measured
Published by Eurostat. Nothing here is estimated on top of what they publish.
- What the figure is
- The average number of people living in a household, from EU-SILC, the European survey on income and living conditions. A household is everyone sharing an address and their living costs.
- What it is not
- It is not a family size and not a count of children. It is also 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
- 31 countries have a figure for 2025. Switzerland (2024), Montenegro (2024), North Macedonia (2024), Iceland (2020) stopped reporting earlier and are shown at their most recent year, hatched on the map and labelled in the table. The United States, Canada and Australia are not in this dataset.
- Series breaks
- Eurostat flags a break in 2025, in or just before the latest year, so no comparison with the past is shown on this page. A figure that looks like a trend across a break is worse than no trend at all.
- Dataset Eurostat
ilc_lvph01, Average household size - Series 2003 to 2025
- Last updated by Eurostat 2026-10-20
- Retrieved 2026-10-24
- DOI10.2908/ILC_LVPH01
- Eurostat metadataexplanatory texts
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