Statistics Norway

Dwelling stock

3 Number of dwellings1, by type of building and year of construction. 1 January 2008
  Type of building
  Total Detatched house2 House with two dwellings Row house, linked house and house with 3 or 4 dwellings Multi-dwelling building Recidence for communities Other type of building3
  Numbers
Year of construction of the building              
Total 2 274 362 1 207 665  207 742  260 315  498 592 40 011 60 037
               
1900 and before  110 582 54 424 7 242 5 497 39 216  556 3 647
1901-1920 81 608 42 609 11 068 6 339 18 232  376 2 984
1921-1940  144 624 67 329 19 094 10 189 44 501  454 3 057
1941-1945 12 746 8 087 1 452  648 2 202 24  333
1946-1960  309 033  151 093 48 413 32 817 68 769 1 364 6 577
1961-1970  279 930  151 405 18 881 29 435 73 358 3 512 3 339
1971-1980  364 380  204 274 17 611 51 748 82 633 4 961 3 153
1981-1990  322 054  197 845 23 844 45 707 41 612 5 634 7 412
1991-2000  230 049  110 230 20 621 35 495 44 810 9 776 9 117
2001 and after  204 313 64 361 17 904 30 624 75 310 8 906 7 208
Unknown  215 043  156 008 21 612 11 816 7 949 4 448 13 210
               
  Per cent
Year of construction of the building              
Total  100.0  100.0  100.0  100.0  100.0  100.0  100.0
               
1900 and before 4.9 4.5 3.5 2.1 7.9 1.4 6.1
1901-1920 3.6 3.5 5.3 2.4 3.7 0.9 5.0
1921-1940 6.4 5.6 9.2 3.9 8.9 1.1 5.1
1941-1945 0.6 0.7 0.7 0.2 0.4 0.1 0.6
1946-1960 13.6 12.5 23.3 12.6 13.8 3.4 11.0
1961-1970 12.3 12.5 9.1 11.3 14.7 8.8 5.6
1971-1980 16.0 16.9 8.5 19.9 16.6 12.4 5.3
1981-1990 14.2 16.4 11.5 17.6 8.3 14.1 12.3
1991-2000 10.1 9.1 9.9 13.6 9.0 24.4 15.2
2001 and after 9.0 5.3 8.6 11.8 15.1 22.3 12.0
Unknown 9.5 12.9 10.4 4.5 1.6 11.1 22.0
1  Occupied and vacant dwellings.
2  Includes bed-sits/basement flats.
3  Mainly includes dwellings in industrial buildings, garages and other non-residential buildings.

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