Press release No. 326 of 8 July 2021
WIESBADEN – At the end of 2020, the number of dwellings in residential and non-residential buildings amounted to 42.8 million in Germany. The Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) also reports that the stock of dwellings rose by 0.7%, or 290,966 dwellings, on the previous year. Compared with 2010, the stock of dwellings increased by 5.7% or 2.3 million dwellings. This means that, at the end of 2020, there were 515 dwellings per 1,000 inhabitants, that is 20 dwellings more than ten years earlier.
Basic data and long time series are available in table Residential buildings, dwellings, living floor space (31231) in the GENESIS-Online database.
