CZSO published first technical characteristics of houses

29 April 2022

Today, the CZSO published primary technical characteristics of houses based on Census 2021 results.

The data on houses by materials of the building, the type of sewage disposal system and the lift equipment was published. The data is available for all territory units, including municipalities and city or administrative districts.

According to the Census 2021 results, the most common materials for load-bearing walls of houses in the Czech Republic were stone, bricks, blocks and their combinations, which were present in 87.7% of the houses with identified building material. The published data shows that 62.3% of all houses with an identified system of sewage disposal already had a connection to the public sewage disposal plant. Almost 80,000 houses in the Czech Republic had their private sewage disposal plant. More than 61 thousand houses were equipped with a lift, which corresponded to only 2.7% of the housing stock with a lift.

All published Census data on houses including tables and charts by regions are available at www.scitani.cz, for more detailed data go to Public database.