European Housing Tenure
Who owns and who rents across Europe, in one clean Parquet: the share of the population that owns outright, owns with a mortgage, rents at market price or rents at all - Eurostat's tenure distribution (ilc_lvho02), annual, per country. The ownership-structure lens the rent-vs-buy and affordability products imply but don't spell out: mortgage-heavy owner societies are rate-sensitive, renter-heavy ones face different political pressure on rent control. Policy, proptech and mortgage-risk analysts read tenure to predict where housing stress bites.
- Source
- Eurostat
- Licence
- Redistributable open data
- Updates
- Annual
- Data through
- 2025-01-01
- Quality
- QC clean · 0 failures
- Format
- Apache Parquet + dictionary
Safe to train on
Built only from a named, redistributable official source under a documented open licence - not scraped web data. No copyright grey zone, no personal data. Ships machine-readable Croissant metadata (ML Commons - loads in Hugging Face / Kaggle / Google), an AI training-licence manifest documenting source, licence and provenance for your model's data governance, and a machine-readable data dictionary (drop it into an agent / RAG prompt so the model knows every column) - all inspectable before you buy.
What's included
- 5 tenure shares - owner, owner-with-mortgage, owner-outright, tenant, tenant-at-market-price
- Annual, per European country back to ~2003; the owner-vs-renter structure of each market
- Mortgage share = rate sensitivity; renter share = rent-control pressure - the political/credit lens
- country × year × tenure; joins european-rent-vs-buy, european-housing-affordability
- Source: Eurostat EU-SILC (CC-BY-4.0, Decision 2011/833/EU) - aggregate, no personal data
Schema
| Column | Type | Description | Filled | Distinct |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| zone | str | Geo / country code (DE, FR, PL, …) | 100.0% | 37 |
| ts | timestamp (UTC) | Year | 100.0% | 23 |
| indicator | str | Owner / owner-with-mortgage / owner-outright / tenant / tenant-at-market | 100.0% | 5 |
| value | float | % of population in that tenure status | 100.0% | 897 |
| unit | str | Unit | 100.0% | 1 |
| res_min | int | Native resolution (annual) | 100.0% | 1 |
Sample & preview
Every purchase ships as Apache Parquet with a data dictionary and the full QC report. A free sample (first rows + schema) is downloadable here - confirm fit before you buy. Source: Eurostat (redistributable open data; attribution passes through - see our Licence).
Don't trust screenshots - drop the sample into your notebook right now.
import pandas as pd df = pd.read_parquet("european-housing-tenure_sample.parquet") df.info() # typed columns, gap-aware, ready to join⬇ Download free Parquet sample or CSV for Excel
Coverage: 37 zones
AL · AT · BE · BG · CH · CY · CZ · DE · DK · EE · EL · ES · FI · FR · HR · HU · IE · IS · IT · LT · LU · LV · ME · MK · MT · NL · NO · PL · PT · RO · RS · SE · SI · SK · TR · UK · XK
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