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Buildings started. Surface area. By destination. Counties and Aran, areas and provinces

Buildings started. Surface area. By destination. Counties, areas and provinces 2003
Non residential
Residential Establishments Industry Trade & warehouses Offices Hostelry Others (1) Total
Alt Camp 78.5 30.5 0.4 0.0 0.0 4.6 0.1 35.6
Alt Empordà 376.0 6.6 0.9 6.8 1.9 2.1 0.2 18.6
Alt Penedès 241.9 57.4 21.3 5.0 0.6 0.4 0.7 85.3
Alt Urgell 37.4 20.8 0.0 0.9 0.0 0.0 1.9 23.6
Alta Ribagorça 9.2 5.9 0.0 0.2 0.0 0.0 0.0 6.0
Anoia 242.1 44.2 3.8 0.8 1.5 0.0 1.4 51.6
Bages 422.7 55.3 6.8 0.7 2.0 4.6 1.5 70.9
Baix Camp 629.9 265.8 7.3 0.7 0.7 0.0 0.7 275.1
Baix Ebre 218.6 63.9 11.3 9.1 4.8 30.4 1.9 121.5
Baix Empordà 417.4 5.6 2.5 10.1 0.0 2.2 0.6 20.8
Baix Llobregat 722.9 151.1 109.8 13.6 20.6 123.8 0.7 419.6
Baix Penedès 396.7 158.8 4.4 4.2 0.0 0.0 0.0 167.3
Barcelonès 1,052.0 308.2 107.9 217.8 177.5 70.7 0.0 882.1
Berguedà 57.1 6.2 0.0 3.3 0.0 1.1 0.0 10.6
Cerdanya 103.7 8.6 0.1 0.0 0.0 0.3 0.3 9.3
Conca de Barberà 25.6 10.3 2.1 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 12.4
Garraf 314.5 119.8 13.9 0.3 0.7 0.0 0.0 134.6
Garrigues 17.8 12.0 0.0 0.6 0.0 0.0 0.7 13.3
Garrotxa 72.3 5.1 11.2 0.0 0.4 0.0 0.0 16.6
Gironès 364.8 13.0 2.8 115.9 1.1 0.3 0.1 133.2
Maresme 653.9 186.6 11.9 2.1 19.7 18.9 2.1 241.3
Montsià 268.1 105.4 5.7 9.3 8.3 0.0 6.8 135.5
Noguera 47.8 31.2 25.3 1.2 0.0 0.0 0.0 57.8
Osona 284.2 98.0 24.4 6.3 3.0 0.0 0.1 131.7
Pallars Jussà 20.5 7.8 0.1 0.1 0.0 0.0 0.0 8.0
Pallars Sobirà 34.4 11.1 0.0 0.0 0.0 2.8 0.0 13.9
Pla d'Urgell 91.8 40.0 0.0 10.8 0.1 0.8 0.4 52.2
Pla de l'Estany 50.7 0.9 1.7 0.1 0.0 0.0 0.1 2.7
Priorat 13.4 7.1 0.7 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.4 8.2
Ribera d'Ebre 19.4 8.6 0.8 0.7 0.0 0.0 0.0 10.1
Ripollès 42.2 1.0 0.0 1.2 0.0 0.0 0.0 2.2
Segarra 24.2 10.1 0.0 0.2 0.0 0.0 0.0 11.2
Segrià 308.0 1,168.7 40.4 5.0 0.8 0.0 1.1 1,215.9
Selva, La 390.1 11.7 19.1 7.7 0.0 2.7 0.1 41.3
Solsonès 20.3 8.2 0.0 2.8 0.0 0.0 0.0 11.0
Tarragonès 652.5 319.0 5.2 0.7 0.0 1.1 0.0 326.1
Terra Alta 8.5 5.2 0.0 2.0 0.0 1.2 0.0 8.3
Urgell 73.8 36.4 0.7 2.1 0.0 0.0 0.0 39.2
Val d'Aran 39.1 19.5 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 19.5
Vallès Occidental 1,437.0 456.6 58.0 10.7 25.1 21.2 0.4 572.0
Vallès Oriental 729.1 204.9 43.9 17.8 14.0 49.0 11.5 341.1
Catalonia 11,010.0 4,087.5 544.3 470.7 282.8 338.4 33.8 5,757.4
Metropolità 5,151.3 1,484.6 366.7 267.2 258.2 284.0 15.4 2,676.1
Comarques Gironines 1,713.5 43.8 38.1 141.8 3.3 7.3 1.0 235.4
Camp de Tarragona 1,796.5 791.5 20.0 5.6 0.7 5.7 1.2 824.7
Terres de l'Ebre 514.6 183.0 17.8 21.1 13.2 31.6 8.7 275.3
Ponent 563.4 1,299.2 66.4 20.0 0.9 0.8 2.2 1,389.6
Comarques Centrals 1,026.4 211.8 35.0 13.8 6.4 5.8 2.9 275.7
Alt Pirineu i Aran 244.4 73.7 0.3 1.2 0.0 3.1 2.2 80.4
Barcelona 4,782.5 1,281.7 360.5 158.2 124.7 219.1 18.0 2,162.2
Girona 3,162.9 451.3 79.4 261.8 143.3 78.4 1.6 1,015.8
Lleida 753.5 1,380.1 66.6 24.0 0.9 3.6 4.2 1,479.4
Tarragona 2,311.1 974.5 37.8 26.7 13.9 37.3 9.9 1,100.0
Units: Thousands of square metres.
Source: Departament de Medi Ambient i Habitatge. Direcció General d'Habitatge.
Note: (1) Includes livestock.

Last update: June 18, 2009.

Methodological note

Definition of concepts

Housing starts
Residential construction project supervised by the college of surveyors.
Establishment
Structurally separate and independent area where economic activities dependent on a company are or could be carried out.

Methodological aspects

The information on buildings started comes from the building work approvals by the Official Associations of Surveyors, Architectural Technicians and Building Engineers of Catalonia.

Since these are administrative data from a set of professional associations, the total construction activity for non-residential buildings in Catalonia is not included.

From 2014 there is a break in the series due to the application of methodological changes.

Unavailable information is represented using the symbol ":". When the value is lower than that of the minimum unit to be able to estimate the statistical operation or if it effects statistical confidentiality, the symbol used is "..".