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Building stock 2010

Most of the building stock was residential buildings

At the end of 2010 there were 1,446,000 buildings in Finland (excluding free-time residences and agricultural buildings). Most of the building stock, particularly residential buildings was built after the 1970s. The gross floor area of the building stock totalled about 434 million square metres. The average gross floor area of all buildings was about 307 square metres; in other than residential buildings the average gross floor area was about 811 square metres. Residential buildings accounted for 63 per cent of the total gross floor area.

Table 2. Number of buildings by intended use on 31 Dec. 2010

	Buildings	Per cent of total buildings (%)
BUILDINGS TOTAL	1 446 096	100,0
A.Residential buildings	1234602	85,4
Detached houses	1101707	76,2
Attached houses	76241	5,3
Blocks of flats	56654	3,9
C-N Other bulldings	211494	14,6
C Commercial buildings	41961	2,9
D Office buildings	10835	0,7
E Traffic buildings	54716	3,8
F Institutional buildings	8058	0,6
G Buildings for assembly	13509	0,9
H Educational buildings	8903	0,6
J Industrial buildings	40629	2,8
K Warehouses	27170	1,9
L,N Other bulldings	5713	0,4

The building stock grew by 12,000

There were 1,446,000 buildings in Finland at the end of 2010. The building stock grew by 12,000 from the year before. The number of buildings has increased by 284,000, or by about 24 per cent, from 1990. There are about 77,000 old buildings completed prior to 1921, i.e. only five per cent of the building stock. Three-quarters of the building stock were detached houses. Blocks of flats and terraced houses accounted for only one-tenth of the total number of buildings. Blocks of flats accounted for about one-third of the total gross floor area of all residential buildings.

Two-thirds one-storey buildings

67 per cent of the building stock were one-storey buildings. That is because three-quarters of the building stock were detached houses. One and two-storey buildings account for altogether 95 per cent of the total building stock. A total of 3.6 million, i.e. 69 per cent, of the population in Finland live in buildings with one or two storeys. There were 26,000 buildings with four storeys or more and just over one million (1,104,000) Finns lived in them. Buildings with ten storeys and more are quite rare. There are approximately 300 such landmarks in Finland, 200 of them blocks of flat.

Source: Buildings and Free-time Residences, Statistics Finland

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Updated 26.5.2011