Press release No. 514 of 5 December 2022
- Approximately 595,300 households received housing allowance at the end of 2021; the highest proportion of households depending on housing allowance was found in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
- Average monthly amount received by households where all members were entitled to housing allowance rose by 15 euros year on year
- Housing allowance expenditure up 7% to roughly 1.4 billion euros
WIESBADEN – Approximately 595,300 households in Germany received housing allowance at the end of 2021. They accounted for 1.5% of all main residence households. The Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) also reports that the number of recipient households declined by 3.7%, or about 22,900, compared with a year earlier. At the end of 2020, roughly 618,200 households had received housing allowance.
Basic data and long time series are available in table Households receiving housing allowance, average monthly claim to housing allowance (22311-0001) in the GENESIS-Online database.
