Table 1 Dwellings, occupants and rooms , by type of building. 1980, 1990 and 2001. Numbers and per cent

1	Dwellings, occupants and rooms , by type of building. 1980¹, 1990 and 2001. Numbers and per cent (Corrected 17 October 2005)

	Total	Type of building

	Total	Detached house or farm house	Linked house, row house, terraced house or verticaly divided two-dwelling building	Horizontally divided two-dwelling building or other house with less than 3 floors	Block of flats, or other building with 3 or more floors	Commercial building etc. or residential building for communities

	Numbers
Dwellings, total
1980	1 523 508	805 828	163 346	132 600	272 419	26 222
1990	1 751 363	1 018 145	250 285	129 684	328 673	24 577
2001	1 961 548	1 119 844	248 694	166 374	360 770	65 866

Occupants, total
1980	4 046 472	2 442 256	476 864	304 895	550 182	55 212
1990	4 206 414	2 761 962	603 867	258 357	540 066	42 162
2001	4 485 945	2 862 219	591 044	321 801	600 357	110 524

Rooms, total
1980	5 536 291	3 585 225	611 364	391 653	692 858	77 049
1990	7 069 333	4 750 837	948 225	412 753	882 161	75 357
2001	8 119 156	5 329 703	1 012 078	559 590	1 024 290	193 495

Occupants per dwelling
1980	2.7	3.0	2.9	2.3	2.0	2.1
1990	2.4	2.7	2.4	2.0	1.6	1.7
2001	2.3	2.6	2.4	1.9	1.7	1.7

Rooms per dwelling
1980	3.9	4.6	3.9	3.1	2.7	3.2
1990	4.0	4.7	3.8	3.2	2.7	3.1
2001	4.1	4.8	4.1	3.4	2.8	2.9

Occupants per rooms
1980	0.7	0.7	0.8	0.8	0.8	0.7
1990	0.6	0.6	0.6	0.6	0.6	0.6
2001	0.6	0.5	0.6	0.6	0.6	0.6

	Per cent
Dwellings, total
1980	100.0	52.9	10.7	8.7	17.9	1.7
1990	100.0	58.1	14.3	7.4	18.8	1.4
2001	100.0	57.1	12.7	8.5	18.4	3.4

Occupants, total
1980	100.0	60.4	11.8	7.5	13.6	1.4
1990	100.0	65.7	14.4	6.1	12.8	1.0
2001	100.0	63.8	13.2	7.2	13.4	2.5

Rooms, total
1980	100.0	64.8	11.0	7.1	12.5	1.4
1990	100.0	67.2	13.4	5.8	12.5	1.1
2001	100.0	65.6	12.5	6.9	12.6	2.4

¹	The total numbers include 123 093 dwellings with unknown type of building, 217 063 occupants and 178 142 rooms in dwellings with unknown type of building.