Building stock, 2002

The number of detached houses in Norway are 1 089 343. This is 80 per cent of the total number of residential buildings. The category "House with two dwellings" has 126 386 buildings.

In average Norway has 241 detached houses per each thousand residents. Hedmark and Oppland top the statistics with 360 and 352 detached homes per thousand residents. There are only 48 detached houses per thousand residents in Oslo.

2.2 million non-residential buildings

Non-residential buildings include holiday houses and residential garages, and exists of 2 157 700 buildings. 749 657 of the non-residential buildings are industrial buildings. Agricultural and fishery buildings are the dominant type of industrial buildings with 509 441 buildings. There are 113 202 industrial buildings and warehouses.

359 000 holiday houses

As of January 2002 there are 358 997 holiday houses in Norway. Oppland and Buskerud have most holiday houses. In Oppland there are 39 405 holiday houses, and in Buskerud ther number is 38 594.

The Residence Address Project

During last year the municipalities did a project called the Residence Address Project, to give each housing a unique address. Because of this project duplicates in the building register and buildings that had a wrong classification were discovered. Registered buildings that no longer exist have also been discovered. This has caused differences between figures of this year compared with last year.

Unspecified building type

This statistics now have 154 buildings of which the building type is not given. Last year 207 unspecified buildings were registered.

Tables:

• Table 1 Existing building stocks at January 2002. County
• Table 2 Existing stock of residential buildings at January 2002. County
• Table 3 Existing stock of non-residential buildings at January 2002. County
• Table 4 Number of holiday houses (cottages, summer houses etc.) at January 2002. County