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369 000 holiday houses in Norway
statistikk
2004-02-11T10:00:00.000Z
Construction, housing and property;Construction, housing and property;Svalbard
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Building stock, 2004

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369 000 holiday houses in Norway

368 933 holiday houses were registered in Norway in January this year. The county of Oppland has the highest number of holiday houses, while Buskerud is on second place.

In Oppland there are now 40 850 holiday houses, while Buskerud has 39 981. The counties with fewest holiday houses are Oslo and Sogn og Fjordane, with 2 298 and 9 212 respectively. Regarding the land area of the municipalities, Tjøme and Hvaler are the municipalities with the highest density of holiday houses.

Number of holiday homes at January 2004

Density of holiday homes in the municipalities. Number of holiday homes per km2 land area. January 2004

Municipalities with highest density of
holiday houses. January 2004
Municipalities Number of holiday houses
per km2 land area
Average for the country 1.20
   
0723 Tjøme 57.92
0111 Hvaler 48.77
0215 Frogn 34.71
0216 Nesodden 29.85
0722 Nøtterøy 17.59
0706 Sandefjord 17.22
0106 Fredrikstad 15.42
0136 Rygge 14.57
0211 Vestby 14.46
0628 Hurum 14.36
0711 Svelvik 12.36
1246 Fjell 11.91

Number of detached houses per 1000 inhabitants. County. January 2004

1.1 millions detached houses

There is a total of 1 387 516 residential buildings in Norway. 79 per cent of these are detached houses. Houses with two dwellings constitute 9 per cent of all residetial buildings, the same percentage as the category "rowhouses, linked houses and houses with three or four dwellings".

For the country as a whole, there are 240 detached houses per 1 000 inhabitants. Hedmark and Oppland are the counties with most detached houses relatively to the number of inhabitants, with respectively 360 and 353 detached houses per 1 000 inhabitants. Oslo has 45 detached houses per 1 000 inhabitants.

Improvement of the GAB-register

Municipalities are from times to times cleaning up their registers to improve the quality. As a result, buildings that were not classified the previous year may have been assigned their correct building type the year after. Buildings that were incorrectly classified the previous year may have been assigned the correct building type code. The number of registered buildings in the municipalities may change from year to year because of the clean up.

The statistics are based on data from the Ground Property, Address and Building Register (GAB). The municipalities record data in GAB. All buildings in Norway larger than 15 m2 are to be recorded in the register with a code for building type and coordinates. The statistics can include buildings that are torn down, burnt down or otherwise non-existing, if not reported to the municipality.

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

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