1980 HUNGARIAN CENSUS OF POPULATION Summary data (1984)

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

In 7. 6 percent of all dwellings, in 261 thousand dwellings two families live together, in 0. 1 percent of all dwellings, in 6 thousand dwellings at least three families are living together. In other 132 thousand dwellings live such families - in two or more households - where the family lives together with relatives or alien single persons. Part of the latter are such persons who live only temporarily with the family for occupational or educational purpose, and whose residence is some other place. The number of these dwellings is 112 thousand for two households living together and 20 thousand for three or more households living together. There are 11 thousand marginal and mobil housing units which are occupied but this also constitutes a demand for proper dwellings. 1 percent of all dwellings can not be considered of full value, these are the so-called 26 thousand austerity dwellings consisting of one single room, without anything else. THE AGE COMPOSITION OF THE OCCUPANTS OF THE DWELLINGS The analysis of the age composition of the occupants shows the improvement of housing conditions. This is connected first of all to the growth in the number of dwellings, but demographic factors also play a role. The number of dwellings where the occupants belong to the same generation grew by 317 thousand, by 33 percent, their proportion rose from 32 percent to 37 percent since 1970. Within this the proportion of dwellings where only middle age occupants live is 13 percent, 5 percent higher than 10 years earlier, the proportion of dwellings where only young people live rose by 1 percent to 8 percent. At the same time the proportion of dwellings where only old people live did not change (16 percent)

. The number of dwellings where two generations live together grew by 150 thousand, by almost 10 percent. Their present 51 percent proportion among all dwellings is by 1 percent less than lOyears earlier. Within this in 39 percent of the dwellings young and middle aged occupants live together, in 9 percent imadie aged and old persons live together and in only 3 percent live young and old people together. The number of the latter decreased by almost the same extent by which the number of dwellings of middle and old aged occupants increased. There was a considerable decrease (by more than 110 thousand, 24 percent) in the number of dwellings where three generations live together, their proportion decreased from 16 percent to 11 percent in 10 years. THE MAIN DATA OF THE DWELLING HOUSES/BUILDINGS At the 1. January 1980 there were 2 million 2 51 thousand dwelling houses in the country, by 130 thousand, 6 percent more than in 1970. Besides there were 17 thousand other buildings where at least one flat was found. The number of buildings containing marginal housing units decreased considerable from 13 thousand to 4 thousand since 1970, due to the large extent dwelling construction. The number of all dwelling houses/buildings grew by 290 thousand, by 1 5 percent since 1960, within this the number of more-than-one-storied dwelling houses rose by 33 thousand, by 79 percent, the number of one-storied dwelling houses rose by 257 thousand, by 13 percent. One third of the morethan-one-storied dwelling houses were built in the past decade, although only 3 percent of all dwelling houses are more-than-one-storied even today. The development of the number of dwelling houses (percentage) Year Total OneMore-thanPeriod Growth Year Total storied one-storied Period Total OneMoreTotal storied storied 1960 100.0 97.9 2.1 1949-59 13.5 12.9 49.8 1970 100.0 97.1 2.9 1960-69 8.1 7.3 47.3 1980 100. 0 96. 7 3.3 1970-79 6. 1 5.7 21.6 The vast majority (97 percent) of the dwelling houses are one-storied still today. This propor+ion is 82 percent even in Budapest, 93 percent in other cities ana in the country - with the exception f 7 thousand dwelling houses - almost all dwelling houses are one-storied. 146