Census 2021

More than a half of the occupied dwellings in Czechia are in apartment buildings

The previously published data on houses from the 2021 Census have been newly supplemented with data on the number of floors and a position of a dwelling in a house. Data on occupied dwellings by house characteristics such as a type of building, a house ownership, a period of construction or reconstruction, materials of the building, a sewage disposal system and a lift equipment. Number of occupied houses and occupied dwellings by a type of building are available for smallest territorial units.

According to the 2021 Census, occupied houses in Czechia most often had one or two floors – one-floor houses accounted for more than a third and two-floor houses for more than half of all occupied houses with a known number. Only about one in eight of the occupied houses had three or more floors above ground. The Capital City of Prague is in an exceptional position due to the above-average representation of apartment buildings, which had by far the highest proportion of houses with three or more floors (43.5%). On the other hand, in regions with a high share of family houses – Středočeský, Zlínský and Vysočina regions – three or more floor houses account for only 6-8% of occupied houses.

More than 2.4 million occupied dwellings are located in apartment buildings, more than half (54.3%) of the total number of almost 4.5 million occupied dwellings in the Czechia. Only one tenth of occupied houses make up apartment buildings. Dwellings in family houses with less than 2 million represents 44.1% occupied dwellings. Only 1.6% of occupied dwellings is situated in other types of building.

The published results in the form of tables and cartograms up to the level of regions are available on the website scitani.cz. Detailed data on houses and dwellings for all territorial units up to the level of municipalities and municipality or administrative districts are available in the CZSO Public Database. Here in the Public Census 2021 - basic data section data on number of occupied houses and occupied dwellings by a type of building is published for the smallest territorial units: parts of municipality, parts of municipality – segments, ZSJ and ZSJ – segments.