Apartments: Tenants have less and less space, owners live more generously

For months now, people have been spending more time at home than ever in recent history.

But by no means all Germans can spread out over spacious living areas.

While some sections of the population literally live big, others live very cramped.

But where do you stand in comparison to other households in Germany? Especially in comparison to your own population group - pensioners, single people, owners, tenants? The IW Cologne has now published an interactive living space calculator in which you enter parameters such as household size, income class and type of living and then see where you are in your reference group, whether at the lower or the upper end of the area pyramid.