Housing is a one of the most important human’s requirement and is one of the geographical phenomenon of a region and geographical factors (that differ in each area and obtain specifiction of each area) has important role in sharing its kind beside the ethnical, historical and psychological factor) Human and it’s around environment in small or large scales has mutual relations and by profit or force and innate flexibility for agreement with environmental conditions, are trying for improve their around environment and outlook of this improvement is obvious in housing different parameters and variabled contribute in determination of condition of housing Providing proper accommodation is one of the important problems in our country and is considered as one of the emergency issues in society and is extremely vital and for the same reason it has been on focus in the Islamic Republic Constitution to provide proper accommodation for all of the society classes as a right for each individual. The use of the housing indices is one of the important ways in awareness of the housing situation in rural planning process. These indices represent qualitative and quantitative condition of rural housing and improving housing which are part of planning for a long-term perspective. The purpose of this study at first step is giving an overview of the concept and status of rural housing indices and identifying of characteristics of Ilam rural housing. Then, the most important components and indices of housing situation in rural areas of Ilam Province will study and finally the rural area of this region will classify by using of the indices. Therefore, the present research according to its purpose is analytical-descriptive which has been conducted by using documents and library studies. Among the variables that are related to housing, 22 indices extracted and reduced to 5 factors. Factors obtained from the factor analysis totally include 97.60 percent of the variance. Among 5 extracted factors, welfare factor covers 25.406 percent alone which is the most effective factor in this study. In order to classify rural homogeneous regions, cluster analysis method has been used and Ilam rural settlements have been classified in 4 homogeneous groups. Based on the results, rural areas of Shirvan and Chardavol are located at the highest level and rural areas of Dehloran, Dareshahr and Abdanan located at the lowest level in terms of enjoyment of housing indices.