Eurostat data indicates that, in Portugal, 15.7% of people cannot adequately heat their homes (EU 9.2%), the fourth highest percentage after Bulgaria and Greece (19% each), Lithuania (18%) and Spain (17.5%), with Finland (2.7%), Slovenia (3.3%) and Poland (3.3%) at the other end of the table.

On average across the 27 Member States, 68% of people lived in their own homes, mostly houses (51%), with 1.7 rooms per person and housing 2.3 people.

Regarding occupancy, in Portugal, according to data released by the European statistical service, 11% of people lived in overcrowded homes in 2024 (EU 17%).

According to Eurostat data, only Germany has more residents living in rented homes than in owned homes (53%), followed by Austria (46%) and Denmark (39%).

Conversely, Romania has the highest proportion of homeowners (94%), followed by Slovakia (93%), Hungary (92%) and Croatia (91%).

Regarding the type of housing, houses are the most common in two-thirds of the Member States, with Ireland leading (90%), followed by Belgium and the Netherlands (77% each) and Croatia (76%).

Apartments are preferred in Spain (65%), Latvia (64%), and Malta (63%).

The occupancy rate among the 27 countries varied in 2024, ranging from 3.1 people in Slovakia, followed by 2.9 in Poland and 2.7 in Croatia and Ireland, and both in Germany, Denmark, and Sweden, and 1.9 in Finland and Lithuania.

Romania (41%) is the country where the most inhabitants live in overcrowded homes, followed by Latvia (39%) and Bulgaria (34%), while at the opposite extreme are Cyprus (2%), Malta (4%), and the Netherlands (5%).