Final figures from the Housing Census. Population and Housing Census 2001

6   Dwellings, by year of construction and system for heating. 3 November 2001. Numbers and per cent
System for heating Total Year of construction
-1900 1901-1920 1921-1940 1941-1945 1946-1960 1961-1970 1971-1980 1981-1990 1991-2001
  Numbers
Total 1 961 548  122 285 90 694  155 166 14 979  335 216  296 980  377 257  327 133  241 838
                     
Single system, total  605 407 34 463 22 042 42 634 3 605 81 409 86 573  128 640 96 775  109 266
Electric stoves/heating cables etc.  428 872 26 645 16 630 18 172 1 818 38 394 48 222  104 636 81 034 93 321
Radiators or hot-water heating in floors  111 536 1 976 1 634 18 126  944 28 028 26 595 14 115 8 801 11 317
Stoves for solid fuel 38 957 4 325 2 554 3 568  583 8 579 6 176 5 710 4 831 2 631
Stoves for liquid fuel 16 231 1 020  880 1 845  206 4 887 3 901 2 485  664  343
Other system for heating 9 811  497  344  923 54 1 521 1 679 1 694 1 445 1 654
                     
Two or more systems, total 1 356 141 87 822 68 652  112 532 11 374  253 807  210 407  248 617  230 358  132 572
Electric stoves/heating cables and stoves for solid fuel  744 366 51 810 38 208 55 634 6 268  134 327 89 163  113 747  162 518 92 691
Electric stoves/heating cables and stoves for liquid fuel 86 922 5 298 5 271 8 343  898 26 987 19 974 13 973 4 176 2 002
Electric stoves/heating cables and stoves for solid and liquid fuel  116 315 7 277 7 159 11 493 1 227 28 960 23 699 25 070 8 980 2 450
Radiators or hot-water heating in floors and one or more other systems  124 812 5 523 5 050 17 049 1 094 21 028 22 489 22 422 12 796 17 361
Other combinations  283 726 17 914 12 964 20 013 1 887 42 505 55 082 73 405 41 888 18 068
                     
  Per cent
Total  100.0  100.0  100.0  100.0  100.0  100.0  100.0  100.0  100.0  100.0
                     
Single system, total 30.9 28.2 24.3 27.5 24.1 24.3 29.2 34.1 29.6 45.2
Electric stoves/heating cables etc. 21.9 21.8 18.3 11.7 12.1 11.5 16.2 27.7 24.8 38.6
Radiators or hot-water heating in floors 5.7 1.6 1.8 11.7 6.3 8.4 9.0 3.7 2.7 4.7
Stoves for solid fuel 2.0 3.5 2.8 2.3 3.9 2.6 2.1 1.5 1.5 1.1
Stoves for liquid fuel 0.8 0.8 1.0 1.2 1.4 1.5 1.3 0.7 0.2 0.1
Other system for heating 0.5 0.4 0.4 0.6 0.4 0.5 0.6 0.4 0.4 0.7
                     
Two or more systems, total 69.1 71.8 75.7 72.5 75.9 75.7 70.8 65.9 70.4 54.8
Electric stoves/heating cables and stoves for solid fuel 37.9 42.4 42.1 35.9 41.8 40.1 30.0 30.2 49.7 38.3
Electric stoves/heating cables and stoves for liquid fuel 4.4 4.3 5.8 5.4 6.0 8.1 6.7 3.7 1.3 0.8
Electric stoves/heating cables and stoves for solid and liquid fuel 5.9 6.0 7.9 7.4 8.2 8.6 8.0 6.6 2.7 1.0
Radiators or hot-water heating in floors and one or more other systems 6.4 4.5 5.6 11.0 7.3 6.3 7.6 5.9 3.9 7.2
Other combinations 14.5 14.6 14.3 12.9 12.6 12.7 18.5 19.5 12.8 7.5

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