Households in the EU 2021

In 2021, there were approximately 197.4 million households in the 27 member states that compose the European Union. Of these member states, Germany had the highest number of households at 41 million households, followed by France at 31 million.

Number of private households in the European Union (EU27) from 2012 to 2021 (in 1,000s)

Characteristic	Number of households in thousands
2012	185,705.4
2013	187,035.4
2014	189,181.5
2015	191,240
2016	191,633.2
2017	192,866.4
2018	194,308.5
2019	195,593
2020	196,012.4
2021	197,004.4

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Release date

July 2022

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Region

Europe, EU

Survey time period

2012 to 2021

Supplementary notes

The data collection 'LFS - specific topics, household statistics' covers a range of statistics on number, characteristics and typologies of households, based on the European Union Labour Force Survey (EU-LFS). The data collection also encompasses some labour market indicators broken down by household composition. Only annual data are available.

Data coverage corresponds to code "lfst_hhnhtych" of the EU-LFS series.

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