Most people in the EU were owners of their dwellings last year, official statistics showed on Monday.

More than two-thirds (70.1%) of the population in the EU lived in owner-occupied dwellings, while 29.9% were renting their dwelling, according to data released by the EU statistical office, Eurostat.

In Bulgaria, the owners/tenants ratio was 84.3/15.7 percent.

The highest shares of the population owning their dwelling were registered in Romania (96.1%), Slovakia (90.3%) and Lithuania (89.9%). At the opposite end were Germany, where 52.5% of the population owned their dwelling, followed by Austria (57.2%), Denmark (63.3%), the UK (64.8%) and France (65.1%).

Population in Bulgaria had the lowest satisfaction with accommodation with a score 6 out of 10. Non-EU Serbia scored 6.2, while EU members Greece and Latvia each scored 6.6.

The highest satisfaction with accommodation in Europe was registered in EU member Finland, followed by non-EU Switzerland. Each of those two countries scored 8.4, followed by Denmark and Austria (each with 8.3) and Sweden (8.2).

With an average score of 7.5 on a scale from 0 to 10, satisfaction with accommodation was the second best rated domain by the EU population aged 16 and over, behind satisfaction with personal relationships, Eurostat said in a press release. The lowest rung of the ladder, 0, signifies “not satisfied at all”, while 10 stands for “fully satisfied”.

Data on satisfaction with accommodation come from the ad-hoc module on subjective well-being implemented in the 2013, the EU statistics on income and living conditions (EU-SILC).

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