{"id":137185,"date":"2025-02-03T09:15:53","date_gmt":"2025-02-03T07:15:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/news\/living-costs-in-europe-how-much-of-your-disposable-income-goes-to-housing-and-bills\/"},"modified":"2025-02-03T09:15:53","modified_gmt":"2025-02-03T07:15:53","slug":"living-costs-in-europe-how-much-of-your-disposable-income-goes-to-housing-and-bills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/news\/living-costs-in-europe-how-much-of-your-disposable-income-goes-to-housing-and-bills\/","title":{"rendered":"Living costs in Europe: How much of your disposable income goes to housing and bills?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mp_wrapper\">\n  <div class=\"mepr-unauthorized-message\">\n    <p>You are unauthorized to view this page.<\/p>\n  <\/div>\n  <div class=\"mepr-login-form-wrap\">\n            \n<div class=\"mp_wrapper mp_login_form\">\n                  <!-- mp-login-form-start -->     <form name=\"mepr_loginform\" id=\"mepr_loginform\" class=\"mepr-form\" action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/\" method=\"post\" data-trp-original-action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/\">\n            <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_username\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n                              <label for=\"user_login\">Username<\/label>\n        <\/div>\n        <input type=\"text\" name=\"log\" id=\"user_login\" value=\"\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_password\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n          <label for=\"user_pass\">Password<\/label>\n          <div class=\"mp-hide-pw\">\n            <input type=\"password\" name=\"pwd\" id=\"user_pass\" value=\"\" \/>\n            <button type=\"button\" class=\"button mp-hide-pw hide-if-no-js\" data-toggle=\"0\" aria-label=\"Show password\">\n              <span class=\"dashicons dashicons-visibility\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span>\n            <\/button>\n          <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n            <div>\n        <label><input name=\"rememberme\" type=\"checkbox\" id=\"rememberme\" value=\"forever\" \/> Remember Me<\/label>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n      <div class=\"submit\">\n        <input type=\"submit\" name=\"wp-submit\" id=\"wp-submit\" class=\"button-primary mepr-share-button\" value=\"Log In\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"redirect_to\" value=\"\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137185\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_process_login_form\" value=\"true\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_is_login_page\" value=\"false\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n    <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"trp-form-language\" value=\"en\"\/><\/form>\n    <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n    <div class=\"mepr-login-actions\">\n        <a\n          href=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/?action=forgot_password\"\n          title=\"Click here to reset your password\"\n        >\n          Forgot Password        <\/a>\n    <\/div>\n\n      \n    <!-- mp-login-form-end --> \n  <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"smart_content_wrapper\">\n<p>People in the EU spend 20% of their disposable income on housing. Euronews Business examines how housing costs as a share of income vary across Europe. Housing, including utility bills, is the largest expense for Europeans and its share of household expenditure has risen significantly over the past two decades. Housing costs also represent a significant portion of disposable income.<\/p>\n<p>In the EU, on average, a fifth of disposable income is spent on housing costs. So, how much of your disposable income goes to housing and bills? Are you curious about the average in your country and how it compares to other European countries?<\/p>\n<p>What do housing costs include?<br \/>\nFirst of all, what exactly do &#8221;housing costs&#8221; include? According to Eurostat, the provider of this data, housing costs refer to the monthly expenses connected with a household&#8217;s occupancy of their accommodation, and this includes the cost of utilities such as water, electricity, gas, and heating. For homeowners, housing costs include mortgage interest payments, while for tenants, they include rental payments. It also includes expenses such as structural insurance, mandatory services and charges, regular maintenance and repairs and taxes.<\/p>\n<p>In 2023, on average in the EU, 19.7% of disposable income was dedicated to housing costs. This differed among member states, ranging from 11.6% in Cyprus to 35.2% in Greece. Disposable income included all income from work (employee wages and earnings from self-employment); private income from investment and property; transfers between households; all social transfers received in cash including old-age pensions. Greece (35.2%) is a clear outlier, as the second-ranked country, Denmark, is significantly lower at 25.9%, closely followed by Germany at 25.2%.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/business\/2025\/02\/03\/living-costs-in-europe-how-much-of-your-disposable-income-goes-to-housing-and-bills\">Read more&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source: <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/business\/2025\/02\/03\/living-costs-in-europe-how-much-of-your-disposable-income-goes-to-housing-and-bills\">Euronews Business<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/vau-viikkokatsaus\/living-costs-in-europe-how-much-of-your-disposable-income-goes-to-housing-and-bills\/\">Living costs in Europe: How much of your disposable income goes to housing and bills?<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\">Vastuullisuusuutiset.fi<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[17806,606,607,608],"class_list":["post-137185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-living-costs-in-europe","tag-vau_viikkokatsaus","tag-vauen","tag-vaufien"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137185\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}