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More than 4.1 million buildings
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Number of buildings in Norway, building stock, buildings by type of building, construction.

Building stock, 1 January 2016

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More than 4.1 million buildings

The building stock increased by more than 28 000 buildings in 2015. The number of buildings in Norway has now passed 4.1 million.

Building stock by type of buildingPublished 24 February 2016
201220162012 - 2016
In all3 980 4614 113 674133 213
Residential buildings1 477 4741 523 07345 599
Non-residential buildings2 502 9872 590 60187 614
 
Residential buildings
Detached house1 137 9381 158 98221 044
House with 2 dwellings152 084161 3739 289
Row house, linked house and house with 3 dwellings or more148 175159 76211 587
Multi-dwelling building34 72637 9933 267
Residence for communities4 5514 963412
 
Non-residential buildings
Holiday house, garage linked to dwelling etc1 753 7511 839 48285 731
Of which:
Chalet, summerhouses etc.410 333423 04112 708
Detached houses and farmhouses used as holiday houses32 43632 727291
Industrial building102 690107 4514 761
Agricultural and fishery building509 071503 483-5 588
Office and business building38 67138 875204
Transport and communications building10 44711 4701 023
Hotel and restaurant building31 32731 511184
Building used for education, research, public entertainment and religious activities46 64847 7701 122
Hospital and institutional care building5 6005 65757
Prison, building for emergency preparedness etc.4 7824 902120

Source: Statistics Norway

The building stock increased by almost 1 per cent in 2015. Well 4.1 million buildings are registered per 1st of January 2016.

Changes in building stock are due to new buildings, demolition, change in use of buildings and register maintenance. A good 12 000 buildings had change in code for building type in 2015. Equally 48 000 buildings registered per 1st of January 2016 did not exist a year earlier. The other way around, almost 20 000 buildings were registered as of 1st of January 2015 did no longer exist as of 1st of January 2016.

Continued decrease in agricultural sector

Buildings within the agricultural sector is still the only major group of buildings by type that has experienced a net decrease the last year. It is especially the number of farmhouses, and buildings for animals, granary, fruit and vegetable storage, agricultural silo, building for hay/grain drying that has decreased in 2015. Agricultural buildings had a net decrease of 1 510 buildings 

Garages and boat houses had the largest increase, with a net increase of 12 866 buildings. Detached houses, houses with two dwellings and row houses had a net increase of 5 033, 2 485 and 2 751 respectively.

Building stock on map

The building stock is also counted for on the map within a fixed square grid. This grid statistics show the geographical pattern of the building stock, which parts of Norway that are influenced by buildings, and where the highest building density might be found.

The grid statistics for buildings should be used in combination with e.g. number or dwellings or residents. This will give a better indication on which parts of the country that is more in use. Statistics on grids may be downloaded from the Geodata webpage (in Norwegian only), or shown in Statistics Norway's geoportal (in Norwegian only).

Basis for statisticsOpen and readClose

The statistics are based on data from the data register (Matrikkelen). The municipalities record data in the Matrikkel. All buildings in Norway larger than 15 square metres are recorded in the register with a code for building type and coordinates. The statistics may include buildings that are demolished, burnt down or otherwise non-existent, where these are not reported to the authorities.

Connected units are recorded as separate buildings when the units can be demolished independently of each other. A single dwelling in row houses and in semi-detached houses is recorded as one building.

Reasons for changes in building stock Open and readClose

Municipalities clean their registers at different intervals in order to improve quality. As a result, buildings that were not classified one year are assigned their correct building type the following year. In addition, incorrectly classified buildings are assigned their correct building type code. The number of registered buildings in a municipality may therefore change from one year to the next.