Building stock, 2006

The counties of Hedmark and Hordaland are following with 30 937 and 27 225 holiday houses, respectively. The lowest number is recorded in Sogn og Fjordane and Oslo - both counties with less than 10 000 holiday houses.

1.4 million residential buildings - most of them detached houses

As of January this year 1 413 516 residential buildings are registered in Norway. Of these, 1 110 246 buildings are detached houses. The category "House with two dwellings" has 137 759 buildings.

Norway has an average of 240 detached houses per thousand residents. Hedmark and Oppland top the statistics with 361 and 356 detached houses per thousand residents. There are only 45 detached houses per thousand residents in Oslo.

2.3 million non-residential buildings

2 308 482 non-residential buildings are registered in Norway. 1 551 222 of these are holiday houses, residential garages etc., and 757 260 are industrial buildings. Agricultural and fishery buildings are the dominant type of these with 519 467 buildings. The number of industrial buildings and warehouses amounts to 106 465.

A total of 3 722 012 buildings are registered in Norway at January 2006.

Improvement of the GAB-register

Municipalities are from time to time cleaning up their registers to improve the quality. As a result, buildings that were not classified the previous year may have been assigned their correct building type the year after. Buildings that were incorrectly classified the previous year may have been assigned the correct building type code. The number of registered buildings in the municipalities may change from year to year because of the clean up.

Tables:

• Table 1 Existing building stocks, by county. At January 2006
• Table 2 Existing stock of residential buildings, by county. At January 2006
• Table 3 Existing stock of non-residential buildings, by county. At January 2006
• Table 4 Number of holiday houses, by county. At January 2006
• Table 5 Number of holiday houses per square kilometer, by municipality. January 2006