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One in ten lives on an agricultural property
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2008-11-06T10:00:00.000Z
Agriculture, forestry, hunting and fishing;Construction, housing and property
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Agricultural properties, 2007

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One in ten lives on an agricultural property

A total of 440 000 Norwegians, around 10 per cent of the population, live on an agricultural property. Around 159 700 agricultural properties have one or several dwelling houses. Of these, one in five is uninhabited.

Buildings on agricultural properties. 2007

Agricultural and forestry properties with uninhabited dwelling houses. 2007

There is a great variety among the counties. In the county of Sogn og Fjordane in the western part of Norway one in four lives on an agricultural property, while the corresponding figure for the more central counties of Oslo and Akershus is 2.3 per cent. About one in five of the agricultural properties with dwelling house do not have people living there permanently.

One in four agricultural properties with buildings had construction activity the last ten years.

One in four agricultural properties owned by a woman

For the country as a whole, one in four agricultural properties is owned by a woman. A total of 105 000 properties are owned by a married owner, and 16 300 properties are owned by a married couple. In total, 33 000 properties are owned by more than one owner.

Background

The statistics are built on data from several administrative registers, of which the Farm Register is the basis. At the moment a quality improvement of areas and units in the Farm Register is carried out at municipality level. This results in changes that not necessarily shows the real change from 2006 to 2007. Therefore figures at municipality level are not published for 2007.

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