October 4, 2023
The Statistical Office of the Slovak Republic has published extended result about households and occupancy status of houses and dwellings
As part of the ongoing dissemination of data from the 2021 Census, the Statistical Office of the Slovak Republic has published extended results about households and occupancy status of houses and dwellings.
As of 1 January 2021, there were 1 833 150 dwelling households in Slovakia and their average size was 2.6 members in urban areas and 3.3 members in rural areas. Of the 2 376 103 census households, 60 % are family households and almost 4.2 million inhabitants of Slovakia, i.e. 80 %, live in them. The number of permanently occupied houses was 949 163, the number of permanently occupied dwellings 1 736 505.
More detailed information on the structures, size and selected characteristics of dwellings households and census households and on the occupancy of different types of houses and dwellings in them, is provided by the extended results published by the Statistical Office of the Slovak Republic in the form of multidimensional tables on the website www.scitanie.sk.
The President of the Statistical Office of the Slovak Republic Ing. Peter Peťko, MBA
„Population and housing censuses are the only source of information on households, their structures and their development in the Slovak Republic. The 2021 Census highlighted new trends in the development of Slovak households and the extended results offer an opportunity for a deeper analysis. Equally valuable are the information on the occupancy of houses and dwellings, which are processed by occupancy by permanent residence, but also by occupancy by current residence.“
The data on census and dwelling households are created based on the current residence of the residents. Dwelling household consist of all persons, who jointly occupy one dwelling, i.e. each occupied dwelling represents one dwelling household. Census households consists of persons who jointly occupy one dwelling and is determined on the basis of reciprocal family relations. Family census household can be made up of a married couple (with or without children), a cohabiting couple (with or without children) or a lone parent with children.