Press Dwelling stock of 42.5 million dwellings at the end of 2019

Press release No. 281 of 29 July 2020

WIESBADEN – At the end of 2019, the number of dwellings in residential and non-residential buildings amounted to 42.5 million in Germany. The Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) also reports that the stock of dwellings compared with the year 2010 increased by 2.0 million or 5.0 %. There were 511 dwellings per 1,000 inhabitants at the end of 2019, which was an increase of 16 dwellings per 1,000 inhabitants compared with 9 years earlier.

Basic data and long time series are available in table Residential buildings, dwellings, living floor space (31231) in the GENESIS-Online database.

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