Eurostat: 9.6% of Poles face housing cost overburden

As many as 9.6 percent of Poland's population were confronted with housing cost overburden in 2014, meaning that they had to spend more than 40 percent of their disposable income on accommodation. It is lower than the EU average, which stood at 11.4 percent last year. The highest percent of population overburdened with housing costs was in Greece (40.7 percent), Germany (15.6 percent) and Denmark (15.6 percent), and the lowest in Malta (1.6 percent), Cyprus (four percent) and France (5.1 percent). Moreover, Eurostat said that Poland was third in the EU in terms of the share of the population living in overcrowded households, meaning they had a lack of space given the size of the household. Compared with the EU average of 17.1 percent, nearly one in two Poles lived in overcrowded households (44.2 percent). Nonetheless, Poles are quite satisfied with their accommodation, rating their living conditions at 7.4 on a scale of 0 to 10, slightly lower than the EU average of 7.4.