Statistical zones Statistical regions Districts |
Useful floor space | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Total | living floor space 1 | service floor space | ||||
In towns | In villages | In towns | In villages | In towns | In villages | |
Total | 195 999 682 | 95 166 854 | 166 449 378 | 81 314 996 | 29 550 304 | 13 851 858 |
North and South-East Bulgaria | 99 316 851 | 54 417 316 | 83 922 132 | 46 401 861 | 15 394 719 | 8 015 455 |
North-West region | 20 208 352 | 16 850 922 | 17 329 433 | 14 530 130 | 2 878 919 | 2 320 792 |
Vidin | 2 556 985 | 2 583 405 | 2 203 912 | 2 215 852 | 353 073 | 367 553 |
Vratsa | 4 039 399 | 3 653 953 | 3 467 387 | 3 150 849 | 572 012 | 503 104 |
Lovech | 3 472 297 | 3 165 017 | 2 991 497 | 2 727 097 | 480 800 | 437 920 |
Montana | 3 603 015 | 3 142 075 | 3 097 172 | 2 714 848 | 505 843 | 427 227 |
Pleven | 6 536 656 | 4 306 472 | 5 569 465 | 3 721 484 | 967 191 | 584 988 |
North Central region | 20 629 582 | 13 313 827 | 17 384 179 | 11 250 878 | 3 245 403 | 2 062 949 |
Veliko Tarnovo | 6 532 260 | 4 417 609 | 5 525 112 | 3 725 654 | 1 007 148 | 691 955 |
Gabrovo | 3 878 542 | 1 859 887 | 3 239 778 | 1 560 285 | 638 764 | 299 602 |
Razgrad | 2 150 019 | 2 231 769 | 1 814 555 | 1 894 123 | 335 464 | 337 646 |
Ruse | 6 109 338 | 2 566 475 | 5 146 341 | 2 163 952 | 962 997 | 402 523 |
Silistra | 1 959 423 | 2 238 087 | 1 658 393 | 1 906 864 | 301 030 | 331 223 |
North-East region | 26 971 040 | 10 909 475 | 22 528 306 | 9 245 993 | 4 442 734 | 1 663 482 |
Varna | 15 692 148 | 3 448 093 | 12 969 958 | 2 924 850 | 2 722 190 | 523 243 |
Dobrich | 4 817 679 | 2 820 492 | 4 104 078 | 2 427 279 | 713 601 | 393 213 |
Targovishte | 2 532 482 | 2 198 912 | 2 133 530 | 1 854 998 | 398 952 | 343 914 |
Shumen | 3 928 731 | 2 441 978 | 3 320 740 | 2 038 866 | 607 991 | 403 112 |
South-East region | 31 507 877 | 13 343 092 | 26 680 214 | 11 374 860 | 4 827 663 | 1 968 232 |
Burgas | 15 724 151 | 4 713 187 | 13 202 816 | 4 027 006 | 2 521 335 | 686 181 |
Sliven | 4 400 766 | 2 392 312 | 3 748 352 | 2 026 859 | 652 414 | 365 453 |
Stara Zagora | 8 346 381 | 4 330 857 | 7 148 199 | 3 690 226 | 1 198 182 | 640 631 |
Yambol | 3 036 579 | 1 906 736 | 2 580 847 | 1 630 769 | 455 732 | 275 967 |
South-West and South Central Bulgaria | 96 682 831 | 40 749 538 | 82 527 246 | 34 913 135 | 14 155 585 | 5 836 403 |
South-West region | 61 592 249 | 20 073 805 | 52 459 917 | 17 399 724 | 9 132 332 | 2 674 081 |
Blagoevgrad | 6 764 852 | 4 439 276 | 5 934 858 | 3 867 463 | 829 994 | 571 813 |
Kyustendil | 3 513 277 | 2 777 047 | 3 060 719 | 2 415 339 | 452 558 | 361 708 |
Pernik | 3 606 656 | 2 877 742 | 3 098 307 | 2 482 682 | 508 349 | 395 060 |
Sofia | 5 313 154 | 6 975 717 | 4 561 373 | 6 033 347 | 751 781 | 942 370 |
Sofia cap. | 42 394 310 | 3 004 023 | 35 804 660 | 2 600 893 | 6 589 650 | 403 130 |
South Central region | 35 090 582 | 20 675 733 | 30 067 329 | 17 513 411 | 5 023 253 | 3 162 322 |
Kardzhali | 2 540 565 | 3 930 260 | 2 146 860 | 3 299 347 | 393 705 | 630 913 |
Pazardzhik | 6 083 205 | 3 604 590 | 5 231 685 | 3 069 137 | 851 520 | 535 453 |
Plovdiv | 17 518 751 | 7 393 817 | 14 990 271 | 6 311 642 | 2 528 480 | 1 082 175 |
Smolyan | 2 596 230 | 2 612 295 | 2 229 390 | 2 188 422 | 366 840 | 423 873 |
Haskovo | 6 351 831 | 3 134 771 | 5 469 123 | 2 644 863 | 882 708 | 489 908 |
1 Living floor space includes the space of the kitchens over 4 sq. m |
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 | |
Contact phone number | +359 2 9857 205 |
Contact fax number | |
Metadata update | |
Metadata last certified | 11 June 2020 |
Metadata last posted | 11 June 2020 |
Metadata last update | 11 June 2020 |
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 | 2004-2019 |
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 statistical form "Residential building?s Questionnaire? for data collection on new completed and destroyed residential building 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. |
Comment |
-
Friday, 5 February 2021 - 11:00
According to preliminary data of the National Statistical Institute in the fourth quarter of 2020 the number of newly built residential buildings was 969 and the newly built dwellings in them were 4 401. Compared to the fourth quarter of 2019 the buildings were by 32 more (or by 3.4%) and the newly built dwellings in them increased by 220 or by 5.3%.
-
Friday, 6 November 2020 - 11:00
According to preliminary data of the National Statistical Institute in the third quarter of 2020 the number of newly built residential buildings was 879 and the newly built dwellings in them were 3 912. Compared to the third quarter of 2019 the buildings were by 91 more (or by 11.5%) and the newly built dwellings in them increased by 928 or by 31.1%.
-
Friday, 7 August 2020 - 11:00
According to preliminary data of the National Statistical Institute in the second quarter of 2020 the number of newly built residential buildings was 766 and the newly built dwellings in them were 3 660. Compared to the second quarter of 2019 the buildings were by 104 more (or by 15.7%) and the newly built dwellings in them increased by 1 317 or by 56.2%.
-
Friday, 8 May 2020 - 11:00
According to preliminary data of the National Statistical Institute in the first quarter of 2020 the number of newly built residential buildings was 751 and the newly built dwellings in them were 3 473. Compared to the first quarter of 2019 the buildings were by 86 more (or by 12.9%) and the newly built dwellings in them increased by 876 or by 33.7%.
-
Friday, 7 February 2020 - 11:00
According to preliminary data of the National Statistical Institute in the fourth quarter of 2019 the number of newly built residential buildings was 1 057 and the newly built dwellings in them were 4 474. Compared to the fourth quarter of 2018 the buildings were by 335 more (or by 46.4%) and the newly built dwellings in them increased by 2 101 or by 88.5%.
-
Thursday, 7 November 2019 - 11:00
According to preliminary data of the National Statistical Institute in the third quarter of 2019 the number of newly built residential buildings was 740 and the newly built dwellings in them were 2 892. Compared to the third quarter of 2018 the buildings were by 280 more (or by 60.9%) and the newly built dwellings in them increased by 948 or by 48.8%.
-
Thursday, 8 August 2019 - 11:00
According to preliminary data of the National Statistical Institute in the second quarter of 2019 the number of newly built residential buildings was 632 and the newly built dwellings in them were 2 250. Compared to the second quarter of 2018 the buildings were by 60 more (or by 10.5%) and the newly built dwellings in them decreased by 34 or by 1.5%.
-
Friday, 10 May 2019 - 11:00
According to preliminary data of the National Statistical Institute in the first quarter of 2019 the number of newly built residential buildings was 635 and the newly built dwellings in them were 2 453. Compared to the first quarter of 2018 the buildings were by 65 more (or by 11.4%) and the newly built dwellings in them increased by 918 or by 59.8%.
-
Friday, 8 February 2019 - 11:00
According to preliminary data of the National Statistical Institute in the fourth quarter of 2018 the number of newly built residential buildings was 721 and the newly built dwellings in them were 2 345. Compared to the fourth quarter of 2017 the buildings were by 67 more (or by 10.2%) and the newly built dwellings in them increased by 304 or by 14.9%.
-
Wednesday, 7 November 2018 - 11:00
According to preliminary data of the National Statistical Institute in the third quarter of 2018 the number of newly built residential buildings was 454 and the newly built dwellings in them were 1 944. Compared to the third quarter of 2017 the buildings were by 51 less (or by 10.1%) and the newly built dwellings in them decreased by 73 or by 3.6%.
Pages
-
Statistical Reference Book 2020
The National Statistical Institute presents to users of statistical information the annual publication - Statistical Reference Book 2020 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 2016 - 2019 period.
-
Statistical Reference Book 2020 (Bulgarian version)
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.
-
Statistical Yearbook 2019
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.
-
Statistical Yearbook 2018 in infographics
The National Statistical Institute presents to your attention the 86th edition of the Statistical Yearbook of the Republic of Bulgaria in infographics.
In 2018, for the first time, we presented the results of the statistical surveys through graphics, images and other visualization tools, which resulted in a positive response among a wide range of users. We believe that this modern way of presenting statistical information will trigger the interest in those who for the first time encounter the meaning of numbers revealing important aspects of socio-economic life.
-
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.
The current state and changes in the socio-economic and cultural life in the country are presented not in the traditional way in tables and text, but through infographics - images, graphics and other visualization tools.
-
Statistical Reference Book 2018 (Bulgarian version)
The National Statistical Institute presents to users of statistical information the annual publication - Statistical Reference Book 2018 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 2014 - 2017 period.
Pages
- 1
- 2
- 3
- 4
- 5
- следваща ›
- последна »