Building category

The majority of residential buildings are buildings solely used for residential purposes. 57% of these buildings are single-family houses.

Buildings by category

	1990	2000	2010	2022
Residential buildings	1,292,502	1,462,167	1,642,622	1,785,321
Exclusively residential buildings	79.4%	80.7%	83.1%	84.3%
Single-family houses	53.8%	56.2%	57.5%	56.7%
Multi-family houses	25.6%	24.5%	25.6%	27.6%
Residential buildings with ancillary use	14.0%	13.6%	11.9%	11.1%
Buildings with partial residential use	6.6%	5.8%	5.0%	4.6%

Sources: FSO - Federal Population Census, Buildings and dwellings statistics

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