1990 POPULATION CENSUS Detailed data based on a 2 per cent representative sample (1992)

C/ Housing, the housing conditions of the population

Under the joint effect of the housing stock growing more moderately than earlier, and of the population decrease registered for the first time in the history of the population censuses of Hungary after World War II, occupancy in the dwellings continued to improve to the same extent as in the earlier decades. At present, the number of inhabitants per 100 dwellings is already only 277 as against 303 in 1980, calculated per 100 rooms this indicator feli from 151 to 117 persons. In Budapest, despite the unfavourable composition by the number of rooms, occupancy calculateded both for dwellings and for rooms is the lowest (254 and 113 persons, respectively). This favourable situation is accounted for by the high number of persons living alone here 45. The density of occupancy and size of the occupied dwellings Year, type of locality Occupants Rooms Occupants per 100 rooms 2 Floor space(m ) per one Year, type of locality per 100 dwellings Occupants per 100 rooms 2 Floor space(m ) per one Year, type of locality per 100 dwellings Occupants per 100 rooms dwelling occupant 1970 327 164 199 51 16 1980 303 201 151 59 20 1990 277 237 117 69 25 Of which: Budapest 254 225 113 60 24 towns 279 239 117 68 24 rural areas 288 241 119 76 27 Examining the number of persons living in the dwellings by the number of rooms of the dwellings inequalities, concealed by the indicators of average occupancy, can be revealed. The number of inhabitants per 100 rooms shows, both for the country as a whole and by settlement types, that there are less than two persons per one room. This would be a very favourable situation, but in many cases the actual number of inhabitants in dwellings of different sizes results in much worse conditions. Accepting the norm usual at satisfying housing demands (two persons in one room), one-room, a two-room and threeroom dwellings may already be considered as overcrowded if they have 3, 5 and 7 inhabitants, respectively More than 7 per cent of the dwellings, are such, i.e. with regard to the inhabitants of about 270 000 dwellings it may be rightfully presumed that they don't consider their housing conditions as appropriate. In 1980, the same could be said with regard to the inhabitants of 560 dwellings. The great decrease was probably contributed to by the fact, too, that, primarily, constructions of dwellings over the last ten years alleviated the housing problems of this circle Beside the dwellings with a high number of inhabitants, there are, naturally, alsó "less exploited" dwellings: e.g. in 95 000 three-room and in 60 000 four-room dwellings only one and, respectively, only one or two persons are living 46. The occupied dwellings by the number of occupants and rooms (1000) 1 2 3-X Number of occupants Totál Number of occupants Totál -room dwellings -2 1772 438 922 412 3-4 1456 99 585 771 5-6 361 18 105 238 7-X 48 4 13 30 Totál 3637 560 1626 1451 40