According to the results of the 2021 Census, there are a total of 143,971 houses in the Pilsen region, where 580,000 residents live permanently. In ten years, their number increased by 9.9 percent. The majority is owned by natural persons and the largest share of the housing fund dates from 1920 to 1945. The information was published today by the Pilsen branch of the Czech Statistical Office (ČSÚ).
The number of 144,000 houses is the fifth smallest in the Czech Republic in an inter-regional comparison, with the largest number recorded in the Central Bohemian Region, almost 404,000, where they also recorded the greatest ten-year growth rate, namely 14.3 percent. The Karlovy Vary region has the fewest houses, 49,000. In the thirty-year horizon, the Pilsen Region occupied the fifth highest position, having strengthened by 27.3 percent. Central Bohemia was first with 39.9 percent.
Almost 89 percent of buildings in the Pilsen region were owned by natural persons. The second most common type was co-ownership of apartment owners (6.3 percent), and the third most common holder was the municipality or the state (2.2 percent). Housing cooperatives owned 0.2 percent of the housing stock.
Most houses in the region were built or renovated between 1920 and 1945 (15.1 pct). This is followed by the years 1946 to 1970 (12.8 pct of homes) and 11.1 percent between 2001 and 2010. Between 2011 and 2015, 3.9 percent of homes were built, and as of 2016, 7,396 homes were built in the county, which was 5, 1 percent, but among the regions of the Czech Republic it was the fourth largest construction after Central Bohemia, South and North Moravia.
More than half of the houses in the region were connected to the sewerage network (51.6 pct) and almost one third discharged waste water through a sump or cesspool. 5,766 houses (four percent) had their own sewage treatment plant, and 1,143 houses (0.8 percent) operated without a sump or sewage system, which was the largest share among the regions of the Czech Republic and exceeded the national average by 0.3 points. Prague (89.9 pct), Jihomoravský (68 pct) and Karlovy Vary region (68 pct) had the largest share of houses connected to the sewage network.
3,147 houses (2.2 pct) in the Pilsen region had an elevator. The most common material for load-bearing walls was stone, bricks and blocks (74 pct), wall panels, used mainly in apartment buildings, made up 3.8 pct, wood 1.5 percent.
Source: ČSÚ and CTK
