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DWELLINGS BY NUMBER OF THE ROOMS AS OF 31.12.2020
(Number)
Statistical zones
Statistical regions
Districts		 Total Dwellings by number of the rooms
1 rooms 2 rooms 3 rooms 4 rooms 5 rooms 6 rooms and more
Total 3 985 172 357 651 1 305 982 1 327 527 622 471 196 541 175 000
In towns 2 657 721 295 199 1 002 976 868 183 332 764 83 679 74 920
In villages 1 327 451 62 452 303 006 459 344 289 707 112 862 100 080
North and South-East Bulgaria 2 141 188 180 975 678 464 716 032 364 396 114 524 86 797
In towns 1 369 603 150 877 518 943 430 724 184 793 46 028 38 238
In villages 771 585 30 098 159 521 285 308 179 603 68 496 48 559
North-West region 511 561 38 119 145 670 176 234 94 789 33 472 23 277
In towns 275 571 29 743 100 395 87 780 37 238 11 549 8 866
In villages 235 990 8 376 45 275 88 454 57 551 21 923 14 411
Vidin 67 762 4 299 18 235 24 090 12 391 4 766 3 981
In towns 32 853 3 487 11 404 10 847 4 409 1 519 1 187
In villages 34 909 812 6 831 13 243 7 982 3 247 2 794
Vratsa 110 824 10 647 34 066 37 676 18 085 5 994 4 356
In towns 58 783 9 137 23 540 17 192 5 694 1 733 1 487
In villages 52 041 1 510 10 526 20 484 12 391 4 261 2 869
Lovech 94 973 6 886 25 576 31 659 18 842 7 105 4 905
In towns 47 234 3 749 15 514 15 873 7 796 2 468 1 834
In villages 47 739 3 137 10 062 15 786 11 046 4 637 3 071
Montana 91 151 6 049 24 882 31 147 18 426 6 420 4 227
In towns 48 137 4 469 16 807 15 078 7 507 2 406 1 870
In villages 43 014 1 580 8 075 16 069 10 919 4 014 2 357
Pleven 146 851 10 238 42 911 51 662 27 045 9 187 5 808
In towns 88 564 8 901 33 130 28 790 11 832 3 423 2 488
In villages 58 287 1 337 9 781 22 872 15 213 5 764 3 320
North Central region 470 115 32 003 133 916 157 772 94 562 32 343 19 519
In towns 284 020 27 723 103 167 90 164 44 010 11 671 7 285
In villages 186 095 4 280 30 749 67 608 50 552 20 672 12 234
Veliko Tarnovo 146 236 8 559 38 141 49 854 34 292 10 382 5 008
In towns 85 969 7 456 28 979 26 556 16 800 4 106 2 072
In villages 60 267 1 103 9 162 23 298 17 492 6 276 2 936
Gabrovo 79 995 5 679 23 487 26 760 16 505 4 569 2 995
In towns 53 372 4 683 18 006 17 529 9 680 2 115 1 359
In villages 26 623 996 5 481 9 231 6 825 2 454 1 636
Razgrad 59 753 2 352 14 659 19 909 13 202 5 765 3 866
In towns 28 729 1 980 10 329 8 906 4 649 1 719 1 146
In villages 31 024 372 4 330 11 003 8 553 4 046 2 720
Ruse 126 599 12 244 42 918 42 710 18 248 6 422 4 057
In towns 89 147 11 200 36 201 28 919 8 638 2 445 1 744
In villages 37 452 1 044 6 717 13 791 9 610 3 977 2 313
Silistra 57 532 3 169 14 711 18 539 12 315 5 205 3 593
In towns 26 803 2 404 9 652 8 254 4 243 1 286 964
In villages 30 729 765 5 059 10 285 8 072 3 919 2 629
North-East region 524 237 44 290 173 418 181 228 84 545 22 300 18 456
In towns 366 556 37 929 137 501 119 287 50 655 10 671 10 513
In villages 157 681 6 361 35 917 61 941 33 890 11 629 7 943
Varna 266 328 25 443 97 153 89 657 35 470 9 187 9 418
In towns 217 159 23 008 85 506 71 704 25 058 5 609 6 274
In villages 49 169 2 435 11 647 17 953 10 412 3 578 3 144
Dobrich 102 536 7 493 31 022 39 148 17 205 4 415 3 253
In towns 62 131 5 763 21 835 20 840 9 696 2 091 1 906
In villages 40 405 1 730 9 187 18 308 7 509 2 324 1 347
Targovishte 66 105 3 466 18 962 24 016 13 432 3 859 2 370
In towns 33 978 2 621 12 343 10 975 5 722 1 266 1 051
In villages 32 127 845 6 619 13 041 7 710 2 593 1 319
Shumen 89 268 7 888 26 281 28 407 18 438 4 839 3 415
In towns 53 288 6 537 17 817 15 768 10 179 1 705 1 282
In villages 35 980 1 351 8 464 12 639 8 259 3 134 2 133
South-East region 635 275 66 563 225 460 200 798 90 500 26 409 25 545
In towns 443 456 55 482 177 880 133 493 52 890 12 137 11 574
In villages 191 819 11 081 47 580 67 305 37 610 14 272 13 971
Burgas 293 250 41 768 114 361 85 302 32 468 9 219 10 132
In towns 224 416 35 360 93 917 62 593 21 799 5 122 5 625
In villages 68 834 6 408 20 444 22 709 10 669 4 097 4 507
Sliven 93 296 7 968 29 160 28 849 16 463 5 884 4 972
In towns 60 538 6 446 22 607 16 830 9 409 2 899 2 347
In villages 32 758 1 522 6 553 12 019 7 054 2 985 2 625
Stara Zagora 176 750 11 556 57 306 62 916 31 548 7 350 6 074
In towns 114 887 9 361 41 931 40 313 17 613 3 093 2 576
In villages 61 863 2 195 15 375 22 603 13 935 4 257 3 498
Yambol 71 979 5 271 24 633 23 731 10 021 3 956 4 367
In towns 43 615 4 315 19 425 13 757 4 069 1 023 1 026
In villages 28 364 956 5 208 9 974 5 952 2 933 3 341
South-West and South Central Bulgaria 1 843 984 176 676 627 518 611 495 258 075 82 017 88 203
In towns 1 288 118 144 322 484 033 437 459 147 971 37 651 36 682
In villages 555 866 32 354 143 485 174 036 110 104 44 366 51 521
South-West region 1 119 391 126 637 416 808 367 055 126 551 41 387 40 953
In towns 831 440 105 574 331 578 278 055 77 478 19 967 18 788
In villages 287 951 21 063 85 230 89 000 49 073 21 420 22 165
Blagoevgrad 141 524 11 774 38 582 43 695 25 637 10 347 11 489
In towns 84 062 8 110 26 086 27 549 14 094 4 225 3 998
In villages 57 462 3 664 12 496 16 146 11 543 6 122 7 491
Kyustendil 86 954 6 363 28 864 28 990 13 086 4 957 4 694
In towns 46 104 4 292 16 256 15 813 6 176 1 772 1 795
In villages 40 850 2 071 12 608 13 177 6 910 3 185 2 899
Pernik 96 346 8 711 37 567 28 439 12 450 4 548 4 631
In towns 51 012 6 021 22 820 14 510 4 282 1 539 1 840
In villages 45 334 2 690 14 747 13 929 8 168 3 009 2 791
Sofia 179 370 17 031 59 752 55 624 27 336 10 407 9 220
In towns 69 952 7 185 24 422 20 759 10 076 3 865 3 645
In villages 109 418 9 846 35 330 34 865 17 260 6 542 5 575
Sofia cap. 615 197 82 758 252 043 210 307 48 042 11 128 10 919
In towns 580 310 79 966 241 994 199 424 42 850 8 566 7 510
In villages 34 887 2 792 10 049 10 883 5 192 2 562 3 409
South Central region 724 593 50 039 210 710 244 440 131 524 40 630 47 250
In towns 456 678 38 748 152 455 159 404 70 493 17 684 17 894
In villages 267 915 11 291 58 255 85 036 61 031 22 946 29 356
Kardzhali 77 688 3 002 18 777 22 562 17 964 4 905 10 478
In towns 32 510 2 268 12 897 10 807 4 154 991 1 393
In villages 45 178 734 5 880 11 755 13 810 3 914 9 085
Pazardzhik 128 568 7 782 38 258 42 001 23 740 8 251 8 536
In towns 77 656 4 738 24 759 26 065 13 224 4 107 4 763
In villages 50 912 3 044 13 499 15 936 10 516 4 144 3 773
Plovdiv 328 589 25 418 98 836 115 063 56 492 16 091 16 689
In towns 231 348 20 882 75 941 83 945 36 367 7 351 6 862
In villages 97 241 4 536 22 895 31 118 20 125 8 740 9 827
Smolyan 66 103 5 525 20 742 20 802 11 709 3 542 3 783
In towns 32 664 3 617 11 222 10 326 4 833 1 334 1 332
In villages 33 439 1 908 9 520 10 476 6 876 2 208 2 451
Haskovo 123 645 8 312 34 097 44 012 21 619 7 841 7 764
In towns 82 500 7 243 27 636 28 261 11 915 3 901 3 544
In villages 41 145 1 069 6 461 15 751 9 704 3 940 4 220
08.06.2021
Housing fund - Dwellings, Useful floor space
Contact
Contact organisation

National Statistical Institute

Contact organisation unit

Population and Housing Fund Statistics

Contact name

Kameliya Blagoeva

 

Contact person function

Chief expert

Contact mail address

2, P. Volov Str.; 1038 Sofia, Bulgaria

Contact email address

[email protected]

Contact phone number

+359 2 9857 205

Contact fax number
Metadata update
Metadata last certified10 June 2021
Metadata last posted10 June 2021
Metadata last update10 June 2021
Statistical presentation
Data description

Dwellings by number of the rooms, type of settlement (town, village), useful floor space by type of settlement (town, village).

Classification system

· Classification of Territorial Units for Statistical Purposes in Bulgaria (NUTS);

· Unified Classification of the Administrative-Territorial and Territorial Units in Bulgaria (UCATTU).

Sector coverage

The survey covers all residential buildings and dwellings in the country.

Statistical concepts and definitions

Residential buildings are the buildings which by initial building or after reconstruction are suitable for living by one or several households. In the coverage of the survey are included inhabited and uninhabited residential buildings, cook-houses (as separate buildings), hostels, boarding-houses, cloisters and the homes for eldery people in which live joint households.

Steel-concrete buildings are those of which the carrier and the floor constructions are built of steel-concrete and the walls are made of panels, brick masonry or other materials.

Solid structures are those of which the carrier walls are of brick and stone masonry and the belts, the beams and the floor construction are made of steel-concrete but have no steel-concrete columns. The buildings of which the floor elements are precast reinforced concrete units also refers to the solid structures.

In the group of "other buildings" are included the structures that are built of stones, sun-dried brick, wood and other materials.

The dwelling is separate and independent in the terms of construction place, which by initial building or after reconstruction is suitable for living, has one or several rooms (housing or service) and has one or several separate exits to a generally accessible part (stairs, yard or straight to the street), irrespective of whether a kitchen has been built.

A dwelling is also every single dwelling (a room), which is not connected with other rooms, has a separate exit to a generally accessible part (stairs, yard or straight to the street), and is used as a kitchen and a place for living or only for living.

The number of dwellings includes inhabited and uninhabited dwellings suitable for living: hostels, boarding-houses, cloisters and the homes for eldery people in which live joint households: cook-houses when they are separate buildings, dwellings in nonresidential buildings (administrative, farm buildings and others such as schools, hospitals, hotels and barracks) in which constantly live households.

A dwelling which is situated on two or three floors in one residential building where live one household is counted as one dwelling. However, each floor is counted as a separate dwelling if separate household lives on each floor.

The rooms in the hotel type constructions (hall system) in which live separate households are counted as separate dwellings. All rooms and services in the buildings in which are accommodated people from the joint household (boarding-houses, specialized homes, cloisters, prisons, etc) form one dwelling place.

The halls with direct lightening without the vestibules, the kitchens and the rooms with area less than 4 square metres are counted as rooms by arranging the dwellings in groups according to the number of rooms.

If there are two kitchens or a cook-house in the dwelling the second kitchen or the cook-house is counted to the number of rooms.

Living floor space is the floor area of living-rooms, bedrooms, recesses for sleeping, dining-rooms, the rooms for day-stay, cabinets and libraries of scientists, drawing-rooms and the space of the kitchens with over than 4 square meters floor space. Until the end of 2018 the kitchen area was presented separately.

Service floor space is the floor area of the rooms and kitchens with less than 4 square meters floor area, vestibules with a portal or an other screen, corridors, bathrooms, toilets, larders, hanging closets, other service rooms such as drying-rooms, laundries or balconies not depending on their area.

The useful area of the dwelling is sum of the living-floor-space and service floor space. Until the end of 2018 the useful area is sum of living-floor space, kitchen area and service floor space.

The living-floor-space per capita is calculated on the base of the number of the population at the end of the year.

The data about the residential buildings and the dwellings in them are presented according to the administrative division of Bulgaria as of 31.12. of the reference year.

Statistical unit

The object of the survey are the residential buildings and the dwellings in residential buildings in the country.

Statistical population

The statistical survey on Housing fund is exhaustive - the residential buildings and the dwellings in residential buildings in the country.

Reference area

The Republic of Bulgaria's territory.

Time coverage

2004-2020

Base period

Not applicable.

Unit of measure

Number, Square meter.

Reference period

Year

Institutional mandate
Legal acts and other agreements

Not applicable.

Data sharing

Not applicable.

Confidentiality
Confidentiality - policy

· Law on Statistics;

· Regulation (EC) No 223/2009 on European statistics (recital 24 and Article 20(4)) of 11 March 2009 (OJ L 87, p. 164), stipulates the need to establish common principles and guidelines ensuring the confidentiality of data used for the production of European statistics and the access to those confidential data with due account for technical developments and the requirements of users in a democratic society.

Confidentiality - data treatment

Individual data are not published in accordance with article 25 of the Law on Statistics. The publishing of individual data can be performed only in accordance with article 26 of the same law.

Release policy
Release calendar

Statistical information is published according to the Release Calendar presenting the results of the statistical surveys carried out by the National Statistical Institute. Data for Housing fund is published on the NSI website annually, five months after the reference period.

Release calendar access

The calendar is available on the NSI website: http://www.nsi.bg/en/node/480

User access

Data is published on the NSI website, section Housing fund in accordance with the Law on Statistics and the European Statistics Code of Practice respecting the professional independence and aimed at objectivity, transparency and equal treatment of all consumers.

Frequency of dissemination

Annually

Accessibility and clarity
News release

Not applicable.

Publications

· Statistical Reference Book;

· Statistical Yearbook;

· Regions, districts and municipalities in the Republic of Bulgaria.

On-line database

Data on Dwellings and Useful floor space are available to all users of the NSI website under the heading Housing fund: http://www.nsi.bg/en/node/5788

Micro-data access

Anonymised individual data can be provide for scientific and research purposes, and for individual request according to the Rules for the provision of anonymised individual data for scientific and research purposes.

Other

Information service on request, according to the Rules for the dissemination of statistical products and services in NSI.

Documentation on methodology

Survey Methodology: http://www.nsi.bg/sites/default/files/files/metadata/HFund_2_Methodology_EN.pdf

Quality documentation

Not available.

Quality management
Quality assurance

Not applicable.

Quality assessment

Not applicable.

Relevance
User needs

Not applicable.

User satisfaction

Satisfaction survey among the users is not conducted.

Completeness

High level of completeness in accordance with the methodology.

Accuracy and reliability
Overall accuracy

Not applicable.

Sampling error

Not applicable.

Non-sampling error

Not applicable.

Timeliness and punctuality
Timeliness

Statistical data on housing fund is published annually, five months after the reference period.

Punctuality

Data are disseminated according to the ARC timelines.

Coherence and comparability

Comparability - geographical

Data are prepared at national level.

Comparability - over time

Data are comparable.

Coherence - cross domain

Not applicable.

Coherence - internal

Not applicable.

Cost and burden

Not applicable.

Data revision
Data revision - policy

Not applicable.

Data revision - practice

Not applicable.

Statistical processing
Source data

Data source on the housing fund is the Census of housing fund as of 1st February 2011 and web-based application "Residential building's Questionnaire" for data collection on new completed and destroyed residential buildings and dwellings during the reference year.

Frequency of data collection

Annually

Data collection

The Balance of the housing fund data are obtained on the basis of results from the Census of housing fund as of 1st February 2011 and accumulation of the number of new constructed dwellings and deduction of the number of destroyed dwellings during the reference year.

Data validation

Not applicable.

Data compilation

The data processing is centralized at the national level.

Adjustment

Not applicable.

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Pages

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    The National Statistical Institute presents to users of statistical information the annual publication - Statistical Reference Book 2020 in Bulgarian.

    The Statistical Reference Book presents topical information on the demographic processes as well as the economic, social and cultural development of the Republic of Bulgaria for the 2016 - 2019 period.

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    The National Statistical Institute (NSI) has the pleasure to present to the attention of national and foreign users of statistical information the 87th edition of the ‘Statistical Yearbook of the Republic of Bulgaria’ in printed and electronic format.

    It provides current statistical information about the demographic, economic and social development of the country for 2013 - 2018 in different territorial and classification aggregations and breakdowns.

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  • Statistical Reference Book 2019
    The National Statistical Institute presents to users of statistical information the annual publication - Statistical Reference Book 2019 in English.

    The Statistical Reference Book presents topical information on the demographic processes as well as the economic, social and cultural development of the Republic of Bulgaria for the 2015 - 2018 period.

  • Statistical Reference Book 2019 (Bulgarian version)
    The National Statistical Institute presents to users of statistical information the annual publication - Statistical Reference Book 2019 in Bulgarian.

    The Statistical Reference Book presents topical information on the demographic processes as well as the economic, social and cultural development of the Republic of Bulgaria for the 2015 - 2018 period.

  • Statistical Yearbook 2018
    The National Statistical Institute (NSI) has the pleasure to present to the attention of national and foreign users of statistical information the 86th edition of the ‘Statistical Yearbook of the Republic of Bulgaria’ in printed and electronic format.

    It provides current statistical information about the demographic, economic and social development of the country for 2012 - 2017 in different territorial and classification aggregations and breakdowns.

  • Statistical Reference Book 2018
    The National Statistical Institute presents to users of statistical information the annual publication - Statistical Reference Book 2018 in English.

    The Statistical Reference Book presents topical information on the demographic processes as well as the economic, social and cultural development of the Republic of Bulgaria for the 2014 - 2017 period.

  • Statistical Yearbook 2017 in infographics
    The National Statistical Institute of Bulgaria offers a different view of the statistical information included in the 85th edition of the Statistical Yearbook of the Republic of Bulgaria.

    The publication is intended for a wider audience as statistical data are presented in a plain and easy understandable way.

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