There were 4.48 million inhabited apartments in the Czech Republic last year, 9.1 percent more than in 2011. The most common apartments in the Czech Republic have an area of 60 to 79 square meters and three living rooms. It follows from the results of last year’s census, which were published yesterday by the Czech Statistical Office (ČSÚ).
According to the 2021 Census, the capital city had the highest number of inhabited apartments, almost 630,000. Prague thus accounted for 14 percent of the national figure. The second was the Central Bohemia region with more than 560,000 apartments and the third was the Moravian-Silesian region with more than 500,000 inhabited apartments.
“On the contrary, their lowest number was in the Karlovy Vary region, where there were less than 130,000 of them, and they accounted for only 2.8 percent of all apartments in the Czech Republic,” reports the ČSÚ. Statisticians recorded the second lowest number of inhabited apartments in the Liberec region, where there were just under 190,000.
In terms of area, the most common apartments in the Czech Republic are 60 to 79 square meters. Last year, there were almost 1.2 million of them across the country. This was followed by 788,000 apartments with an area between 40 and 59 square meters. In third place were apartments with a total area of 80 to 99 square meters, of which there were 603,000.
Apartments with three rooms predominated, followed by two-room apartments. “The total number of these apartments exceeded 2.4 million,” the statisticians said. According to them, on average in the Czech Republic there are 3.2 living rooms per apartment.
Only one person lived in more than a third of inhabited apartments last year. Apartments with two and three residents followed. On average, there were 2.3 people per apartment.
As in other characteristics, in this case too, the capital was significantly different from other regions. “The share of inhabited apartments with one person was the highest in the country, at the expense of the share of apartments with higher numbers of residents. On the contrary, it was the lowest or one of the lowest in Prague,” said the chairman of the ČSÚ, Marek Rojíček.
In addition to the area of the apartment or the number of its inhabitants, he was interested in statistics as well as the legal reason for use. They found that the most common apartments in the Czech Republic are in own houses, of which there were almost 1.6 million. This was followed by 1.1 million privately owned apartments. Over 890,000 inhabited apartments were rented or leased, and 141,000 were cooperative.
An apartment in one’s own building was the most common legal reason for using an apartment in all regions except Prague and the Karlovy Vary region. In the capital and in the west of Bohemia, the largest share of apartments was privately owned.
In addition to the 4,480,139 inhabited apartments, the statistics recorded another roughly 860,000 apartments falling into the category of uninhabited. However, this does not necessarily mean that these are empty apartments, points out the ČSÚ. It can be, for example, cottages or cottages, or apartments used only part of the week.
Source: ČSÚ and CTK
