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

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release | 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.

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115y
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  • Tenure status
  • Rooms
  • Area
  • Type of building
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116e
Classifications used:
  • Tenure status
  • Size of household-dwelling unit
  • Area
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115z
Classifications used:
  • Area
  • Size of household-dwelling unit
  • Age of the oldest person in the household-dwelling unit
  • Tenure status
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Official Statistics of Finland (OSF): Dwellings and housing conditions [online publication].
Reference period: 2022. ISSN=1798-6761. Helsinki: Statistics Finland [Referenced: 23.4.2025].
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