Average Home Sizes Around the World

Regina Yunghans

updated May 6, 2019

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If you’re traveling the world at all this summer, chances are you’ll come across homes smaller than your average U.S. house. We found the above chart at the BBC (love its Josef Albers-esque aesthetics) and we converted to square feet after the jump:

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The article we read is about home sizes in the UK. The Brits’ homes are actually the smallest, on average, for all of Europe! Here’s the conversion for the chart above, alongside an Albers just for fun (remember, these are averages and reflect new homes constructed since 2003):

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US: 2,300sf
Australia: 2,217sf
Denmark: 1,475sf
France: 1,216sf
Spain: 1,044sf
Ireland: 947sf
UK: 818sf

Read more at the BBC. And for the heck of it – tell us your home’s size below!

Images: BBC, Immaculate Heart Academy