Housing and rent take largest share of Turkish household spending in 2025
Housing and rent accounted for the largest share of household expenditures in Türkiye in 2025, making up 29.3 percent of total spending, according to the Turkish Statistical Institute’s (TÜİK) Household Budget Survey published on June 2.
Transportation ranked second with a 20.5 percent share, followed by food and non-alcoholic beverages at 17.3 percent. At the other end of the spectrum, the smallest shares in total consumption expenditures were recorded in insurance and financial services at 0.8 percent, education services at 1.8 percent and health at 2.2 percent.
The survey showed notable disparities across income groups. High-income households allocated more than three times the share of their budgets to transportation compared with low-income households. Among the highest income group, households devoted 25 percent of their spending to transportation, 25.7 percent to housing and rent and 12.4 percent to food and non-alcoholic beverages.
In contrast, households in the lowest income group spent 38.7 percent on housing and rent, 29.2 percent on food and non-alcoholic beverages and just 8.6 percent on transportation.
