Nearly one million household-dwelling units lived in rented dwellings in 2022

release 12/10/2023 | Dwellings and housing conditions 2022

According to Statistics Finland, around 998,000 household-dwelling units lived in rented dwellings at the end of 2022, which was 35 per cent of all household-dwelling units. The share of household-dwelling units living in rented dwellings among all household-dwelling units remained unchanged compared to the previous year. From 2010, the share has grown by five percentage points.

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The number of households living in owner-occupied dwellings was about 1.73 million. The figure was 61 per cent of all household-dwelling units.
The share of household-dwelling units living in dwellings with other tenure status was three per cent of all household-dwelling units. The share includes right of occupancy dwellings.
Eighty-one per cent of household-dwelling units of persons aged under 30 lived in rented dwellings.
The dwelling population living in owner-occupied dwellings amounted to 3.73 million and the dwelling population living in rented dwellings to 1.55 million.
Of people living alone, 51 per cent lived in rented dwellings and 46 per cent in owner-occupied dwellings.