More people live in rented houses in Finland

The number of persons living in rented dwellings exceeded 1.5 million in 2021, according to Statistics Finland.

About 28 per cent of the dwelling population lived in rented dwellings at the end of 2021, which is four percentage points more than in 2010.

The number of persons in the dwelling population living in rented dwellings has grown by over 100,000 persons from 2018.

The number of persons living in owner-occupied dwellings was 3.7 million, which is 69 per cent of the dwelling population.

Fifty per cent of those living alone lived in rented dwellings and 46 per cent in owner-occupied dwellings.

Four out of five household-dwelling units of persons aged under 30 live in rented dwellings.