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ISSN 1334-0565

 

YEAR: XLVI.

ZAGREB, 29 APRIL, 2009

NUMBER: 3.1.7.

 

 

OBLIGED TO NOTIFY DATA SOURCE

 

 

DEMOLISHED DWELLINGS, 2008

 

 

In 2008, the dwelling stock decreased by 556 dwellings. Reasons of excluding dwellings from the dwelling stock are the following: demolishing because of building of new constructions (83.8%), and dilapidation and other causes (7.4%), conversion into a non-residential area (6.3%), illegal construction (2.2%) and subsequent demolishing of houses heavily damaged in the war (0,3%).

 

The average size of a useful floor area in these dwellings was 68.7 m2. Out of the total number of dwellings, 77.2% had two or three rooms.

 

By the level of equipment with installations within a dwelling, all of them had electricity, while 77.5% had water supply, sewage system, a toilet and a bathroom.

 

 

1.     DWELLINGS, BY CAUSE OF THEIR EXCLUSION FROM DWELLING STOCK, 2008

 

 

Total
decrease
in dwelling
stock1)

Dwellings by reason of demolishing

Conversion
into non-
residential
area etc.3)

 

 

Building of

new
constructions

Illegal
construction

War
damages2)

Dilapidation
and other
causes

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Total

Number

556

466

12

2

41

35

Useful floor area, m2

38 190

32 230

527

142

2 684

2 607

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

In urban settlements

Number

396

339

1

-

26

30

Useful floor area, m2

26 947

23 051

50

-

1 623

2 223

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

In other settlements

Number

160

127

11

2

15

5

Useful floor area, m2

11 243

9 179

477

142

1 061

384

 

 

1)  The total number of dwellings excluded from the dwelling stock, regardless of the way of use (occupied and non-occupied dwellings for usual residence,
     dwellings for seasonal/holiday purposes). Out of the total number of dwellings excluded from the dwelling stock, 10 of them, with the total useful floor area of 402 m2,      were used for seasonal/holiday purposes.

2)  See Notes on Methodology.

3)  Including merging of two or more dwellings into one

 

 

2.   Dwellings, BY aCCESSORY ROOMS AND BY INSTALLATIONS, 2008

 

Total
decrease
in dwelling
stock1)

Accessory  rooms

Installations

 

Bathroom

Toilet

Kitchen

Electricity

Water
supply
system

Sewage
system

Central
heating

Gas

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Total

Number

556

431

431

556

556

431

431

13

63

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

In urban settlements

Number

396

331

331

396

396

331

331

12

62

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

In other settlements

Number

160

100

100

160

160

100

100

1

1

 

 

1)  The total number of dwellings excluded from the dwelling stock, regardless of the way of use (occupied and non-occupied dwellings for usual residence,
     dwellings for seasonal/holiday purposes). Out of the total number of dwellings excluded from the dwelling stock, 10 of them, with the total useful floor area of 402 m2,      were used for seasonal/holiday purposes.

 

3.   DWELLINGS EXCLUDED FROM DWELLING STOCK FOR THE REASON OF DEMOLISHING AND OTHER, BY COUNTIES, 2008

 

Dwellings – total1)

Number of dwellings

Number

Useful floor
area, m2

1 room

2 rooms

3 rooms

4 rooms

5 or
more rooms

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Republic of Croatia

556

38 190

57

223

206

68

2

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

County of Zagreb

35

2 036

8

12

10

5

-

County of Krapina-Zagorje

10

614

2

4

2

2

-

County of Sisak-Moslavina

5

316

1

2

2

-

-

County of Karlovac

17

950

4

8

5

-

-

County of Varaždin

14

1 276

1

3

6

4

-

County of Koprivnica-Križevci

29

2 184

-

9

19

1

-

County of Bjelovar-Bilogora

32

2 157

3

14

14

1

-

County of Primorje-Gorski kotar

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

County of Lika-Senj

6

490

-

1

5

-

-

County of Virovitica-Podravina

25

1 813

1

10

13

1

-

County of Požega-Slavonia

10

880

1

-

4

5

-

County of Slavonski Brod-Posavina

10

772

-

5

1

4

-

County of Zadar

1

94

-

-

-

1

-

County of Osijek-Baranja

143

10 386

6

47

68

22

-

County of Šibenik-Knin

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

County of Vukovar-Sirmium

72

5 621

5

28

21

18

-

County of Split-Dalmatia

9

791

-

3

6

-

-

County of Istria

16

771

3

13

-

-

-

County of Dubrovnik-Neretva

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

County of Međimurje

19

937

2

16

1

-

-

City of Zagreb

103

6 102

20

48

29

4

2

 

 

1)  The total number of dwellings excluded from the dwelling stock, regardless of the way of use (occupied and non-occupied dwellings for usual residence,
     dwellings for seasonal/holiday purposes). Out of the total number of dwellings excluded from the dwelling stock, 10 of them, with the total useful floor area of 402 m2,      were used for seasonal/holiday purposes.

 

 

4.   DWELLINGS EXCLUDED FROM DWELLING STOCK

 

Total
decrease
in dwelling
stock1)

Demolished dwellings by reason of demolishing

Conversion
into non-
residential
space etc.3)

Building of

new
constructions

Illegal
construction

War
damages2)

Dilapidation
and other
causes

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2004.

Number

518

262

187

-

13

56

 

Useful floor area, m2

34 089

18 273

10 074

-

1 337

4 405

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2005.

Number

561

415

70

1

34

41

 

Useful floor area, m2

42 576

31 784

4 897

93

2 750

3 052

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2006.

Number

1 178

768

312

-

22

76

 

Useful floor area, m2

80 084

55 912

16 267

-

1 681

6 224

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2007.

Number

705

625

33

-

9

38

 

Useful floor area, m2

53 050

47 730

1 431

-

515

3 374

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2008.

Number

556

466

12

2

41

35

 

Useful floor area, m2

38 190

32 230

527

142

2 684

2 607

 

 

1)  The total number of dwellings excluded from the dwelling stock, regardless of the way of use (occupied and non-occupied dwellings for usual residence,
     dwellings for seasonal/holiday purposes). Out of the total number of dwellings excluded from the dwelling stock, 10 of them, with the total useful floor area of 402 m2,      were used for seasonal/holiday purposes.

2)  See Notes on Methodology.

3)  Including merging of two or more dwellings into one

 

 

NOTES ON METHODOLOGY

 

Sources and methods of data collection

 

Data on construction presented in this publication are collected through the reporting method, by using the Annual Report on Demolished Building Containing Dwellings and on Conversion into Non-Residential Area (GRAĐ-71 form).

 

Coverage and comparability

 

The Annual Report on Demolished Building Containing Dwellings and on Conversion into Non-Residential Area is collected from state administration offices in counties and in the City of Zagreb authorised for construction works as well as from the Building Inspectorate of the Ministry of Environmental Protection, Physical Planning and Construction, on the basis of the following documents:

 

-    issued licences for demolishing of buildings (containing dwellings)

-    building licences for either conversion of existing residential areas in buildings into non-residential ones or for merging of two or      more dwellings into one, which also results in reducing of the existing dwelling stock by one or more dwellings.

 

The report is filled in only for an entirely demolished building containing one or more completed dwellings. Consequently, damaged buildings intended for repairing and buildings without any completed dwelling are not included.

 

Data on dwellings demolished in the war are covered in a reporting year when commissions for estimating war damages were able to visit particular areas and carry out estimation, but not in a year when demolishing actually occurred.

 

Data on dwellings excluded from the dwelling stock are harmonised with respective UN/ECE recommendations titled the Programme of Current Housing and Building Statistics for Countries in the UN/ECE Region (No. 43/1993, ISBN 92-1-116584-9) and UN/ECE/Eurostat’s Recommendations for the 2000 Census of Population and Housing in the ECE Region (No. 49/1998, ISBN 92-1-116685-3).

 

Definitions

 

Building is a permanent structure covered by roof and enclosed with external walls, which is constructed as an independent purposeful unit that serves as a protection from weather or other external conditions. It is intended for residing, performing of an economic activity or housing and keeping of animals, goods, equipment for various industrial and service activities etc.

 

Dwelling is a residential construction unit consisting of one or more rooms and auxiliary rooms (kitchen, pantry, bathroom, toilet) or without auxiliary rooms and with separate entrance directly from a passage, staircase, garden or street.

 

Useful floor area (m2) is the floor surface measured inside the dwelling walls.

 

Dwelling has an installation for water supply when at least one room in the dwelling has water pipes, no matter whether or not they are connected to the public water supply system or private facilities.

 

Dwelling has an installation for sewage when at least one room in the dwelling has waste pipe, leading outside the building, no matter whether or not they are connected to the public sewage disposal plant or private facility for waste water (septic tank, cesspool etc.) or waste water is emptied directly to the environment (an open ditch, a river, a pit, a sea).

 

Dwelling has a toilet when toilet facility is in a separate room or in a bathroom inside the dwelling.

 

Dwelling has a bathroom when bath or shower is in a separate room inside the dwelling and in which water supply and waste pipe are installed.

 

More detailed methodology notes on this inquiry are published in Methodologies No.17/1998 (ISBN 953-96602-9-7).

 

Abbreviations

 

etc.         and so on (from Latin: et cetera)

EUROSTAT      Statistical Office of the European Communities

m2                      square metre

UN/ECE            United Nations/Economic Commission for Europe

 

Symbols

 

-  no occurrence