1980 HUNGARIAN CENSUS OF POPULATION Summary data (1984)

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

In 110 thousand occupied dwellings - 3 percent of all dwellings - were used by subtenants or night-lodgers too, 194 thousand occupants - 2 percent of all occupants - were subtenant or nightlodger at the beginning of 1980. In 1980 74 percent of the occupied flats were privately owned, and 26 percent state owned. 85 percent of the privately owned flats were in family houses, 8 percent were in blocks of free hold flats, and 7 percent were cooperative flats. The proportion of cooperative and free hold flats grew threefold, their number grew more than three-and-a-half-fold in the seventies. The number of the former rose from 49 thousand to 173 thousand, the number of the later from 58 thousand to 210 thousand. The number of privately owned flats in family house grew to a lesser extent and their proportion decreased in the seventies. The occupied dwellings by the type of ownership (percentage) Year Total Privately owned State owned and other Year Total in family house house with more flats cooperative State owned and other 1970 100.0 69.5 1.9 1.6 27.0 1980 100.0 63.2 6.1 5.1 25.6 THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE FACILITIES AND COMFORT OF THE DWELLINGS As a result of the progress in recent years in 1980 there was electric lighting in 98 percent of the occupied flats, water conduit in 65 percent, gas in 78 percent, water toilet in 53 percent and more then two thirds had sewage disposal. The development of the facilities of the occupied dwellings (percentage) Dwellings with Year Electricity Water piped Gas pipe Gas cylinder Flush toilet Sewage*

3) disposal 1960 74.6 22.7 10.6 3.1 16.1 1970 91.7 36.1 16.2 35.2 27.2 37.9 1980 98.0 65.0 25.5 52.1 53.3 67.8 The greatest improvement was in sewage disposal, in 1980 there were 1 million 17 0 thousand more dwellings with sewage disposal than 10 years earlier. The number of dwellings with individual sewage tank rose more than three-fold. The facilities of occupied dwellings is different by size groups, larger dwellings are considerably better equipped than smaller ones. The facilities of occupied dwellings by the number of rooms, 1980 (percentage) Number of rooms The dwelling is supplied with Number of rooms Electricity Water piped Gas Flush toilet 1 94. 5 43. 2 59. 2 27. 1 2 99. 2 69. 2 82. 6 59. 0 3 99. 8 83.7 89. 8 73. 9 4-X 99. 8 90. 0 91.2 82. 1 Total 98. 0 65. 0 77. 6 53. 3 At the beginning of 1980 about half of all dwellings (1 million 571 thousand) had full comfort, almost one tenth had half comfort and one third (1 million 288 thousand) had no comfort. a) The subtenants have separate room in the dwelling, the night-lodgers share their room with other lodger or with the tenant. b) Community sewerage system and individual sewage tank together. 142