Average Cyprus home is bigger than anywhere in Europe

The average size of a house in Cyprus is 141.4 metres squared making it the biggest in Europe, the Statistical Service said on Tuesday.

“If a person lives in a house with an area of more than 141.4m2, they live in a residence that is above the average size of a household in Cyprus, which has the biggest average size in the EU,” Cystat said.

The smallest average size of a home is in Romania where it measures 43.9 metres squared compared to the European average of 95.9 metres squared.

But Cyprus is bottom of the EU list when it comes to severe housing deprivation among its population which is less than 1% and housing overcrowding (1.4%).

The EU-28 average masks significant differences between the EU Member States: at one extreme there were a number of countries where a relatively small proportion of the population lived in households where housing costs exceeded 40% of their disposable income, notably Malta (1.1 %), Cyprus (3.9 %), Ireland (4.6 %) and Finland (4.9 %).

At the other extreme, just over two out of every five people (40.9%) in Greece and just under one in six of the population in Romania (15.9%), Germany (15.6%) and Denmark (15.1 %) spent more than 40% of their disposable income on housing.