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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 2012
Non residential
Residential Establishments Industry Trade & warehouses Offices Hostelry Others (1) Total
Alt Camp 2.6 1.5 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.3 1.8
Alt Empordà 30.3 11.9 0.0 1.9 0.0 0.0 2.3 16.1
Alt Penedès 13.0 1.6 0.0 0.7 0.0 0.0 9.2 11.4
Alt Urgell 4.7 1.0 0.0 0.1 0.0 0.0 0.3 1.4
Alta Ribagorça 0.3 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
Anoia 6.4 0.5 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 3.5 4.0
Bages 11.6 0.8 0.0 0.1 0.0 0.0 3.6 4.4
Baix Camp 32.3 7.5 0.0 0.6 5.1 0.0 2.3 15.6
Baix Ebre 6.3 1.2 0.0 1.5 0.0 0.0 4.4 7.1
Baix Empordà 20.1 3.8 0.0 0.2 0.0 0.0 14.4 18.4
Baix Llobregat 77.2 8.4 0.0 21.1 5.6 0.4 0.2 35.6
Baix Penedès 9.0 3.6 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 1.5 5.1
Barcelonès 209.4 5.8 0.0 3.5 61.2 9.4 49.1 129.0
Berguedà 1.0 0.0 0.0 0.5 0.0 0.0 5.9 0.6
Cerdanya 3.2 1.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 3.8 4.7
Conca de Barberà 0.8 0.4 0.2 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.6
Garraf 8.0 1.8 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 2.4 4.2
Garrigues 2.4 1.9 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.9 2.8
Garrotxa 2.8 1.0 0.0 1.1 0.0 0.0 0.1 1.1
Gironès 28.4 15.9 0.0 2.1 0.0 0.0 15.4 33.4
Maresme 37.7 2.0 34.0 8.5 1.7 0.0 9.0 55.2
Montsià 7.6 0.9 0.0 7.5 0.0 0.0 1.1 9.6
Noguera 4.2 2.8 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.1 2.8
Osona 16.4 0.4 0.0 0.9 0.0 0.0 1.2 2.6
Pallars Jussà 0.2 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 1.3 1.3
Pallars Sobirà 1.4 0.5 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.5
Pla d'Urgell 5.1 2.4 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.2 2.6
Pla de l'Estany 4.4 2.5 0.0 0.4 0.0 0.0 0.1 3.1
Priorat 1.0 0.7 0.1 2.6 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.7
Ribera d'Ebre 1.8 0.3 0.0 0.1 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.4
Ripollès 1.4 0.1 0.8 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.6 1.5
Segarra 1.4 1.2 0.0 0.1 0.0 0.0 0.0 1.3
Segrià 16.2 7.8 0.0 8.1 0.0 0.0 5.4 21.4
Selva, La 12.9 3.5 0.0 34.3 0.0 0.0 0.3 38.1
Solsonès 0.9 0.3 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.3
Tarragonès 65.3 25.9 0.8 0.0 0.0 0.0 1.2 27.9
Terra Alta 0.9 0.1 0.1 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.2
Urgell 6.8 2.9 0.0 0.5 0.0 0.0 0.0 3.4
Val d'Aran 2.3 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
Vallès Occidental 103.6 17.2 0.9 9.2 0.0 0.0 15.5 33.7
Vallès Oriental 49.8 4.8 0.0 0.2 0.0 0.0 7.0 12.0
Catalonia 811.2 145.8 36.8 93.0 73.6 9.8 156.5 515.6
Metropolità 477.6 38.2 34.8 33.3 68.4 9.8 80.9 265.5
Comarques Gironines 100.3 38.8 0.8 38.9 0.0 0.0 33.1 111.6
Camp de Tarragona 102.0 35.9 1.1 0.7 5.1 0.0 3.8 46.5
Terres de l'Ebre 16.7 2.5 0.1 9.1 0.0 0.0 5.5 17.2
Ponent 36.2 18.9 0.0 8.8 0.0 0.0 6.6 34.2
Comarques Centrals 30.0 1.5 0.0 1.5 0.0 0.0 4.9 7.9
Alt Pirineu i Aran 12.1 2.5 0.0 0.1 0.0 0.0 5.3 7.9
Penedès 36.3 7.4 0.0 0.7 0.0 0.0 16.6 24.7
Barcelona 534.3 43.3 34.8 35.5 68.4 9.8 100.8 292.7
Girona 102.0 39.5 0.8 38.9 0.0 0.0 35.2 114.5
Lleida 47.3 21.0 0.0 8.8 0.0 0.0 9.7 39.6
Tarragona 127.6 42.0 1.2 9.8 5.1 0.0 10.8 68.9
Units: Thousands of square metres.
Source: Departament de Territori i Sostenibilitat. Secretaria d'Habitatge i Millora Urbana.
Note: (1) Includes agricultural and sports.

Last update: April 4, 2013.

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 "..".