First Release

Year: LXII.
Zagreb, 06 June 2025
GRAD-2025-5-1

ISSN 1334-0557

DEMOLISHED DWELLINGS, 2024

 

In 2024, the dwelling stock decreased by 1 093 dwellings. Dwellings were excluded from the dwelling stock for the following reasons: building of new constructions (42.9%), natural disasters (35.0%), dilapidation and other causes (9.8%), illegal construction (10.3%) and conversion into a non-residential area or merging of two or more dwellings into one (2.0%).

The average size of those dwellings was 75.4 m2. Out of the total number of dwellings, 58.7% had one or two rooms.

By the level of equipment with installations and accessory spaces within a dwelling, all of them had electricity, a kitchen, a water supply system, a sewage system and a toilet, and 90.5% had a bathroom.

1 DWELLINGS, BY CAUSE OF THEIR EXCLUSION FROM DWELLING STOCK, 2024

  Total decrease in dwelling stock1) Demolished dwellings, by reason of demolishing Conversion into non-residential area etc.3)
Building of new constructions Illegal construction Natural disaster2) Dilapidation and other causes
Total Number 1 093 469 113 382 107 22
  Useful floor area, m 82 443 42 941 5 188 23 633 8 534 2 147
In urban settlements Number 845 361 87 315 66 16
  Useful floor area, m 63 475 34 089 3 621 19 066 5 137 1 562
In other settlements Number 248 108 26 67 41 6
  Useful floor area, m 18 968 8 852 1 567 4 567 3 397 585

1) The total number of dwellings excluded from the dwelling stock, regardless of the way of use (occupied and unoccupied dwellings for permanent residence, dwellings for vacation). Out of the total number of dwellings excluded from the dwelling stock, 98 of them, with a total useful floor area of 4 040 m2, were used for vacation.
2) Refers to dwellings excluded from the dwelling stock pursuant to the Decision of the Ministry of Physical Planning, Construction and State Assets, in accordance with the Act on the Reconstruction of Earthquake-Damaged Buildings in the City of Zagreb, the County of Krapina-Zagorje, the County of Sisak-Moslavina and the County of Karlovac.
3) Including merging of two or more dwellings into one.

G-1 COMPOSITION OF DWELLINGS EXCLUDED FROM DWELLING STOCK, BY TYPE OF SETTLEMENTS, 2024

G-2 COMPOSITION OF DWELLINGS EXCLUDED FROM DWELLING STOCK, BY NUMBER OF ROOMS, 2024

2 DWELLINGS, BY ACCESSORY SPACES AND BY INSTALLATIONS, 2024

  Total decrease in dwelling stock1) Accessory spaces Installations
Bathroom Toilet Kitchen Electricity Water supply system Sewage system Central heating Gas
Total Number 1 093 989 1 093 1 093 1 093 1 093 1 093 145 250
In urban settlements Number 845 788 845 845 845 845 845 103 219
In other settlements Number 248 201 248 248 248 248 248 42 31

1) The total number of dwellings excluded from the dwelling stock, regardless of the way of use (occupied and unoccupied dwellings for permanent residence, dwellings for vacation). Out of the total number of dwellings excluded from the dwelling stock, 98 of them, with a total useful floor area of 4 040 m2, were used for vacation.

3 DWELLINGS EXCLUDED FROM DWELLING STOCK, BY NUMBER OF ROOMS

  Total Dwellings excluded from dwelling stock by number of rooms
One room Two rooms Three rooms Four rooms Five or more rooms
2020 Number 466 77 145 146 58 40
  Useful floor area, m2 39 411 3 178 9 167 12 559 7 177 7 330
2021 Number 1 227 183 370 356 195 123
  Useful floor area, m2 111 236 7 430 22 970 30 587 23 897 26 352
2022 Number 1 112 273 380 257 125 77
  Useful floor area, m2 88 392 10 586 23 527 21 795 17 275 15 209
2023 Number 1 092 216 338 307 141 90
  Useful floor area, m2 87 240 8 048 20 561 25 022 16 866 16 743
2024 Number 1 093 272 369 259 126 67
  Useful floor area, m2 82 443 10 181 22 946 21 593 14 970 12 753

4 DWELLINGS EXCLUDED FROM DWELLING STOCK, BY REASON OF DEMOLISHING

  Total Demolished dwellings, by reason of demolishing Conversion into non-residential area etc.1)
Building of new constructions Illegal construction Natural disaster Dilapidation and other causes
2020 Number 466 421 4 30 11
  Useful floor area, m2 39 411 35 812 200 2 728 671
2021 Number 1 227 585 30 544 50 18
  Useful floor area, m2 111 236 56 897 1 424 47 426 3 803 1 686
2022 Number 1 112 590 19 415 76 12
  Useful floor area, m2 88 392 50 640 1 093 31 092 4 491 1 076
2023 Number 1 092 516 137 327 85 27
  Useful floor area, m2 87 240 45 402 6 141 26 590 6 871 2 236
2024 Number 1 093 469 113 382 107 22
  Useful floor area, m2 82 443 42 941 5 188 23 633 8 534 2 147

1) Including merging of two or more dwellings into one.

NOTES ON METHODOLOGY

Sources and methods of data collection

The data presented were collected through reporting method by applying the Annual Report on Demolished Buildings Containing Dwellings and on Conversion into Non-Residential Area (GRAĐ-71 form).

Coverage and comparability

The Annual Report on Demolished Buildings Containing Dwellings and on Conversion into Non-Residential Area is collected from the administration bodies competent for construction affairs in major cities, the City of Zagreb and counties, as well as from the State Inspectorate – Building Inspection Sector and the Ministry of Physical Planning, Construction and State Assets on the basis of the following documents:

- Project for the demolition of buildings;

- Building permit by which the demolition of previously constructed building (with one or more dwellings) is planned in order to build a substitute building;

- Reconstruction licenses for the conversion of existing residential areas into non-residential ones or for merging of two or more dwellings into one;

- Decisions of the building inspection by which investors or owners are ordered to demolish constructed buildings with one or more dwellings;

- Other documents related to the demolition of buildings with dwellings (e.g., demolition because of natural disasters such as earthquakes, floods, landslides, fire and other).

The report is filled in only for an entirely demolished building containing one or more completed dwellings. Consequently, damaged buildings with dwellings intended for reconstruction and demolished buildings without any completed dwellings are not included.

Definitions

Buildings are permanent constructions covered with roof and closed with outer walls. They are built as separate useful units that protect from weather and other external conditions and are intended for dwelling, performing a certain activity or placing and upkeeping of animals, goods, equipment used in various industrial activities and services etc.

Dwelling is a residential construction unit consisting of one or more rooms with accessory spaces (kitchen, pantry, foyer, bathroom, toilet, etc.) or without accessory spaces that has a separate entrance directly from the hallway, staircase, courtyard or street.

Useful floor area (m2) is the floor surface of a dwelling measured inside the dwelling walls.

A dwelling has an installation for water supply when at least one room in the dwelling has water pipes, regardless of whether or not they are connected to the public water supply system or private water supply facilities.

A dwelling has an installation for sewage when at least one room in the dwelling has a waste water pipe, regardless of whether they are connected to the public sewer network or a private waste water collection facility (septic tank, cesspool etc.) or the contents of sewer pipes are emptied directly into the environment (an open ditch, a river, a pit, a sea).

A dwelling has a toilet when the toilet facility is in a bathroom or in a separate room inside the dwelling.

A dwelling has a bathroom if it has a room with a bathtub or shower in which water supply and sewage installations have been installed.

 

Abbreviations  
m square metre
   
Symbols  
- no occurence

 

Published by the Croatian Bureau of Statistics, Zagreb, Ilica 3, P. O. B. 80
Phone: (+385 1) 48 06 111
Press corner: press@dzs.hr

Persons responsible:
Milenka Primorac Čačić, Director of Business Statistics Directorate
Lidija Brković, Director General

Prepared by:
Srećko Palej and Ana Šuler Sinković

USERS ARE KINDLY REQUESTED TO STATE THE SOURCE.

Customer Relations and Data Protection Department

Information and user requests
Phone: (+385 1) 48 06 138, 48 06 154, 48 06 115
E-mail: stat.info@dzs.hr

Subscription
Phone: (+385 1) 21 00 455
E-mail: prodaja@dzs.hr

Postavke pristupačnosti