DEMOLISHED DWELLINGS, 2025

In 2025, the dwelling stock decreased by 786 dwellings. Dwellings were excluded from the dwelling stock for the following reasons: building of new constructions (63.1%), natural disasters (17.4%), dilapidation and other causes (10.1%), illegal construction (8.4%) and conversion into a non-residential area or merging of two or more dwellings into one (1.0%).

The average size of those dwellings was 84.5 m². Out of the total number of dwellings, 63.9% had two or three 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 86.0% had a bathroom.

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 the 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 the 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 a 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, the 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 a shower in which water supply and sewage installations have been installed.

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