1980 HUNGARIAN CENSUS OF POPULATION Summary data (1984)

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

The rise in the number of larger dwellings and the improvement of housing conditions is indicated by the considerable growth in the floor-space of dwellings. The average floor-space per one occupied dwelling grew from 51 m

2 in 1970 to 59 m

2 in 1980. In 1980 the average floor-space of one-room dwellings was 38 m^, of two-room dwellings was 60 m

2, and of three-or-more-room dwellings was 82 m

2. The occupied dwellings by floor-space and the number of rooms (percentage) Number of rooms Total Floor-space in m

2 Number of rooms Total -29 30-39 40-59 60-79 80-X 1 100. 0 25. 4 33. 3 35.4 5.2 0. 7 2 100. 0 0. 4 5. 0 51. 5 32. 7 10. 4 3 -X 100. 0 0. 0 0. 1 10. 9 39. 6 49. 4 Total 100. 0 7. 0 11.4 37. 3 27. 0 17.3 o 7 percent of the occupied dwellings are under 30 m , and the floor-space of 50 thousand out of these are less than 20 m

2. The growth in the number of rooms indicates the favourable change in the housing conditions. While the number of occupied dwellings grew by 13 percent, that of the rooms grew by 37 percent in the past decade. In the past decades there was a great improvement in the bathroom-supply of the dwellings. The number of bathrooms or showers doubled decade by decade, so by 1980 there was a bathroom or a shower in almost two thirds of the occupied dwellings. Since 1970 the number of all rooms, kitchens/bathrooms etc. per 100 occupied dwellings grew from 47 6 to 569; the number of rooms from 164 to 2 01, indicating that for the first time in our country two-room dwellings represent the average; the number of bathrooms grew from 32 to 61. The development of the number of rooms,kitchens,bathrooms etc.per 100 occupied dwellings Kitchen, Bathroom, shower Mud-floored Year All places Room cooking alcove Bathroom, shower Other rooms per 100 rooms 1960 375 148 98 17 112 49 1970 476 164 100 32 180 24 1980 569 201 102 61 205 7 The decrease in the number of mud-floored rooms from 721 thousand to 223 thousand in the past 10 years indicates healthier housing conditions. Their proportion is only 7 percent in the whole country and not too high in the villages, either, i.e. 12 percent. The changes in the number of dwellings, in the distribution by the number of rooms and the size of the dwellings improved the housing conditions in the past 10 years. At the beginning of 1980 2 million 76 thousand people (20 percent) lived in one-room dwellings, this means a 1 million 828 thousand (47 percent) decrease since 1970 2 million 125 thousand people (49 percent) lived in two-room dwellings and 3 million 157 thousand (31 percent) lived in three-ormore-room dwellings. More than 3 million people live in dwellings built between 197 0 and 1979, so at present one out of three persons live in dwellings built in the past decade. Since 1970 the number of the inhabitants of the dwellings increased by 4 percent (by 423 thousand) and the number of dwellings increased by 13 percent (by 328 thousand). So the number of inhabitants per 100 occupied dwellings decreased by 24 persons, from 327 to 303, which was close to the 22 persons decrease in the sixties. The pace of the increase in the number of rooms (1 million 860 thousand rooms, 37 percent) was three times higher than the pace of the increase in the number of dwellings. The improvement in the occupant per room was stronger than in the previous decade: the number of inhabitants per 100 rooms decreased from 199 (1970) to 151. The improvement of occupancy can be observed in every dwelling group. In the past decade the decrease in occupancy was greatest in the case of one-room dwellings (69), the decrease was smallest in the case of tnree-room dwellings (14). 140