Housing cost burden (woonquote / overburden rate)
Peer lines share one grey on purpose: hover for countries. The compared series can differ slightly from the Dutch definition above.
Countries are ordered by value, highest first — rank 1 means the highest number, not “the best”. A year is ranked only when all 8 countries report it; missing years stay gaps. The EU average is not a country and is not ranked.
Known criticisms of this statistic
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Two official woonquotes circulate from the same microdata: CBS includes households below 90% of the social minimum, the ministry's WoON publication excludes them — so the CBS figure and the BZK figure differ (e.g. 24.0% vs 25.7% for owners) and are routinely compared as if they were one statistic.
— CBS (its own methodology note on the definitions) · CBS: woonquote — verschillen met WoON
CBS itself concluded the income concept under this ratio is flawed for comparisons: 'besteedbaar inkomen' already has some mandatory costs deducted, so affordability shares for housing, energy and care computed on it cannot properly be compared — which is why CBS introduced a new 'betaalbudget' concept in 2022.
— CBS (researcher Kai Gidding, on the new Woonbase methodology) · CBS: betaalbaarheid wonen en energie beter in beeld
Source & method
| Source | CBS ilc_mded01 · CBS 85950NED |
|---|---|
| Licence | CC BY 4.0 (CBS) |
| Trend method | OLS over last 8 annual observations, 5% significance (MBW convention) |
| Revisions | None recorded since 2026-07-07. Every retrieval is stored append-only; when the source restates history, the old and new values become comparable here. |
| Pipeline notes | Peer switched from ilc_lvho07a (40% overburden rate — a different statistic) to ilc_mded01 (share of housing costs in income) for backlog 6.4, Jul 2026. Derived after_housing_share = 100 − median woonquote; an after-housing-costs euro level is deliberately not published (medians do not subtract). |
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Data table — Housing cost ratio (Netherlands)
| Period | Value |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 20.2 |
| 2023 | 21.1 |
| 2022 | 20.5 |
| 2021 | 22.9 |
| 2020 | 23.0 |
| 2019 | 24.3 |
| 2018 | 24.8 |
| 2017 | 24.9 |
| 2016 | 25.6 |
| 2015 | 26.1 |