EU number of households by country 2021

In 2021 there were approximately 41 million households in Germany, 31 million households in France, and 25.8 million households in Italy, with these three countries having the highest number of households among EU countries.

Number of private households in the European Union in 2021, by country (in 1,000s)

Characteristic	Number of households in thousands
Germany	41,039.5
France	31,050.2
Italy	25,787.9
Spain	18,866
Poland	14,435.4
Netherlands	8,346.4
Romania	7,450.8
Sweden	5,474.2
Belgium	5,055.2
Czechia	4,852.5
Greece	4,123.4
Hungary	4,098.2
Austria	4,039.8
Portugal	3,795.1
Denmark	2,967.6
Bulgaria	2,934.6
Finland	2,831
Ireland	1,949.7
Slovakia	1,852.1
Croatia	1,460.9
Lithuania	1,395.5
Latvia	868.3
Slovenia	835.4
Estonia	681.3
Cyprus	343.7
Luxembourg	266.1
Malta	203.5

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July 2022

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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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