As of 26 March 2021, there were 2 317 276 houses in total in Czechia. This is an increase of over 159,000 houses compared to the previous 2011 Census. Over the last 30 years, the number of houses in Czechia has increased by almost 449 thousand, which represents nearly one fifth of the total housing stock.

“More than 17% of all houses were located in Středočeský region which with almost 400 thousand houses, had the largest housing stock of all regions by a wide margin in the inter-regional comparison. The Stredočeský region had also by far the highest increase in the house stock of all regions (+ 38.1%) since 1991. In last ten years, every fourth occupied house was built or renovated in Středočeský region,” says Robert Šanda, the head of Population statistics department and the 2021 Census subject matter expert.

Almost 2 million houses in Czechia were occupied at the time of the Census, therefore about every seventh house was unoccupied. More than 2 million houses, which is the vast majority of the housing stock, represent family houses. There are about ten times fewer apartment buildings, although most of the total number of dwellings are located in them. Family houses usually have only one dwelling. Houses with one dwelling make up two thirds of all occupied houses with dwellings.

“The total number of family houses was the highest again in Středočeský region, as well as their share among all houses, reaching 93.5%. On the contrary, the lowest share of family houses was in the Capital City of Prague, where one third of the housing stock consist of apartment buildings,” adds Robert Šanda.

The most common type of house owner was natural persons, who owned 88.3% of all occupied houses in Czechia, in Středočeský and Zlínský regions, due to the significant prevalence of family houses, even 92.3% of occupied housing stock. The second most common form of ownership was co-ownership of dwellings, typical for apartment buildings, was significantly above average, especially in Prague, where it was recorded in more than one fifth of occupied houses.

The connection of the house to the water supply system is already almost 100%, similar to dwellings. 82.0% of occupied houses had the piped water connection from the water supply network, more than one tenth from a private water source (e.g. a well). 6.8% of occupied houses was connected to the water supply network as well as to a private water source.

According to the 2021 Census, 64.0% of occupied houses with an identified system of sewage disposal already had a connection to the public sewage disposal plant, a cesspit, sump or septic tank was used by less than a third of occupied houses.

The share of occupied houses with piped gas reached in a nationwide average almost two thirds of occupied houses, but with great difference between regions due to a various degree of gas installation in their municipalities.

More than two thirds of occupied houses had central house heating. About every twentieth occupied house was heated by central remote heating from a heating plant or from a community heating centre, mostly apartment buildings.

The published results in the form of tables and cartograms up to the level of regions are available on the website scitani.cz. The data for all territorial units up to the level of municipalities and municipality or administrative districts are available in the CZSO Public Database.

In addition to basic data on the number of occupied and unoccupied houses and the type of building, data on occupied houses are published according to the number of dwellings in the house, the type of owner of the house, the period of construction or reconstruction and technical characteristics of the house such as such a connection on piped water, piped gas, sewage system, lift equipment, materials of the building and type of heating.

Compared to the first data for houses published by the CZSO in the first half of 2022, the newly published data on the total number of houses are slightly lower. The total number of houses, the so-called house stock, includes all houses intended for living in the Census results, i.e. buildings containing at least one dwelling or other premises intended for living or longer-term accommodation, such as various accommodation facilities. It was only by further processing the data for houses, mainly obtained from administrative sources, and linking them with the data on houses, dwellings and housing of persons collected in the field and through the Census forms, that it was possible to refine the information on the use of individual buildings and also to obtain derived data on their occupancy. More than 30,000 buildings were removed from the housing stock in this update.

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