The data provide information not only on households including foreign-born adults living in the EU but also about native-born adults with at least one foreign-born parent living in households in the EU.
For single-adult households, the EU average consisted of 76.4% households of native-born with a native background, 15.9% households of foreign-born, and 7.7% households of native-born with a foreign background. Countries with a predominantly high share of households of native-born with a native background included Poland and Hungary, with 95.5% and 94.5%, respectively.
Countries with the highest share of households of foreign-born were Luxembourg (58.0%) and Cyprus (33.1%), whereas Latvia (22.0%) and Estonia (20.0%) showed "a notable share of households of native-born with a foreign background" – most likely as a result of their relatively high proprotions of residents with Russian background.
The pattern is also visible when it comes to multi-adult households.
At EU level, 73.0% of multi-adult households consisted of native-born adults with a native background, 15.7% were mixed households, 9.6% were households of foreign-born adults, and 1.7% were households of native-born adults with a foreign background.
In Poland and Hungary, households of native-born adults with a native background accounted for 95.1% and 92.7% of the total, respectively, followed by Lithuania, Czechia and Italy, where the proportion exceeded 80%.
Luxembourg had the lowest share of households of native-born adults with a native background, at 19.6%, and the highest proportion of households of foreign-born adults, at 43.4%. Regarding other types of households, Latvia reported the highest share of mixed households (34.3%), while Estonia had the highest share of households of native-born adults with a foreign background (8.1%).