– Immigrants still have a much lower share of property than the rest of the population. While 85% of the rest of the population own their homes, this applies to 60% of immigrants, says Madeleine Schlyter Oppøyen of Statistics Norway.
Over the last 5 years, ownership has increased by 2 percentage points among immigrants from the EU, Great Britain, the United States, Canada, Australia and New Zealand, and by 1 percentage point percentage among those in Asia, Africa, Latin America and non-EU Europe. This corresponds to 22,000 and 31,000 more owners respectively in 2022 than in 2018. The proportion of owners remained stable in the rest of the population.
Home ownership is less common in larger cities. For example, 74% own in Oslo. Ownership shares are somewhat higher in Trondheim (76%), Bergen (78%) and Stavanger (81%).
Here too, the proportion of homeowners is lower among immigrants. 57% of immigrants living in Oslo are homeowners, compared to 79% for the rest of the population. There are similar differences in all major cities.
Fewer people live in cramped conditions
The proportion that
live in cramped conditions
fell over the same period, from 10.4% in 2018 to 9.7% in 2022. Cramped housing is often linked to low income, as is renting a home.
– The decrease in the proportion of people living in cramped accommodation is mainly due to a decrease in the number of non-EEA immigrants from 30.3 to 27.6 percent, explains Madeleine Schlyter Oppøyen in SSB.
Overcrowding among low-income groups has also decreased over the past five years. For example, the proportion a
low-income households
living on the edge decreased from 16 to 15.3 percent.
