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Building stock 2012

Most of the building stock was residential buildings

At the end of 2012 there were 1,475,000 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 450 million square metres. The average gross floor area of all buildings was about 309 square metres; in other than residential buildings the average gross floor area was about 824 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. 2012

	Buildings	Per cent of total buildings (%)
BUILDINGS TOTAL	1 474 653	100,0
A.Residential buildings	1 258 095	85,3
Detached houses	1 122 315	76,1
Attached houses	77 931	5,3
Blocks of flats	57 849	3,9
C-N Other bulldings	216 558	14,7
C Commercial buildings	42 580	2,9
D Office buildings	10 907	0,7
E Traffic buildings	55 915	3,8
F Institutional buildings	8 414	0,6
G Buildings for assembly	13 826	0,9
H Educational buildings	8 916	0,6
J Industrial buildings	41 799	2,8
K Warehouses	28 582	1,9
L,N Other bulldings	5 619	0,4

The building stock grew by 15,000

There were 1,475,000 buildings in Finland at the end of 2012. The building stock grew by 14,900 from the year before. The number of buildings has increased by 312,000, or by about 27 per cent, from 1990. There are about 78,000 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. 68 per cent, of the population in Finland live in buildings with one or two storeys. There were 27,000 buildings with four storeys or more and just over one million (1,127,000) 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 24.5.2013