First Vienna Residential Market Report 2025

households in austria

households in vienna

13

Single-family homes are still very popular as a form of housing in Austria, but there has been a clear shift towards smaller household structures for the past several years. An average of 2.21 people lived in each household in 2024. This trend seems set to continue; the number of private households will grow to 4.69 million by 2060 according to forecasts from Statistik Austria, 42.2 of which will be single-person households. These changes and pressing climate issues call for realignment in urban planning.

There were around 971,716 private households in Austria’s capital in 2024 with an average household size of just 2.04 people. The ongoing trend towards shrinking households espe- cially affects Vienna, leading to a growing need for new living space to be covered by increased construction activity.

Private households in Austria Forecast for single and multiple-person households 2024 to 2060

Private households in Vienna Forecast for single and multiple-person households 2024 to 2060

Households

Households

605,640

578,972

3,000,000

600,000

2,711,896

530,778

2,544,517

2,500,000

500,000

440,938

1,980,273

2,000,000

400,000

1,604,536

Single-person households

Single-person households

1,500,000

300,000

Multiple-person households

Multiple-person households

1,000,000

200,000

500,000

100,00

0

0

Year

Year

2024

2060

2024

2060

Quelle: WKO Statistik

Forecast to 2060

Forecast to 2060

→ One-person households: up by 23.41 % → Multi-person households: up by 6.6 % → Private households: up by 13.1 %

→ One-person households: up by 31.3 % → Multi-person households: up by 14.1 % → Private households: up by 21.9 % → Over one million households in Vienna by 2030

FIRST VIENNA RESIDENTIAL MARKET REPORT 2025

Powered by