1980 HUNGARIAN CENSUS OF POPULATION Summary data (1984)

X. THE HOUSING SITUATION, THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE POPULATION'S HOUSING CONDITIONS

X. The housing situation, the development of the population' s housing conditions THE NUMBER AND SIZE OF DWELLINGS, THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE DENSITY OF OCCUPANCY At the 1. January 1980 there were 3 million 542 thousand dwellings in the country - holiday homes are not included

a' -, by 420 thousand, 13.5 percent more than at the time of the 1970 census. Looking back to the past 60 years, the growth in the number of dwellings was greatest in the seventies, it was by almost 56 thousand higher than the growth between 1960 and 1969. This growth is obviously the result of many newly built dwelling. The number of dwellings built between 1970 and 1980 was 846 thousand twice as many as the growth. The growth was only 420 thousand because of the demolition of old dwellings. The development of the number of dwellings Year Number of Growth Year dwellings Period Year dwellings Period (in 1 000) number (in 1000) in percentage 1960 2 758 1949-1959 373 15.6 1970 3 122 1960-1969 364 13.2 1980 3 542 1970-1979 420 13.5 At the beginning of 1980 3 million 417 thousand dwellings 96 percent of all dwellings were occupied, and 125 thousand were empty. This later is one-and-a-half-fold of that in 1970. The considerable growth in the number of empty dwellings is caused first of all by the depopulation of small villages and farms. Besides the conventional dwellings there were 11 thousand marginal housing units (mobile units) which were used for habitation, this number if by one third lower than in 1970. which is a favourable decrease. Since 1970 the number of one-roomed dwellings decreased by 32 percent (by 466 thousand), first of all because of the demolition of detached hamlet farms/houses and because the majority of demolished dwellings were one-room dwellings. The number of two-room dwellings grew by 371 thousand in the same time and today already almost half of the dwellings are two-room dwellings. The most considerable growth was in the number of three-and-more-room dwellings, in the past 10 years their number grew more than two-and-a-half-fold, by 515 thousand. Almost one fourth of the dwellings have three -or -more - room s today, while their proportion was less than 11 percent in 1970. The dwellings by the number of rooms Year Total 1 roomed 2 roomed 3-X roomed in 1 000 1960 2 758 1 729 900 129 1970 3 122 1 440 1 348 334 1980 3 542 973 1 720 849 percentage 1960 100.0 62.7 32.6 4.7 1970 100.0 46.1 43. 2 10.7 1980 100.0 27.5 48.5 24.0 a) In the 1. January 1980 there were 117 thousand holiday homes in the country. 139