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Buildings designed mainly as dwellings. By garage places. Counties and Aran, areas and provinces

Buildings designed mainly as dwellings. By garage places. Counties, areas and provinces 2011
Number of places
No garage 1 2 3 to 5 6 to 10 11 to 20 21 to 50 50+ Total
Alt Camp 8,593 5,882 609 200 66 57 40 8 15,455
Alt Empordà 24,689 18,957 4,266 1,238 609 389 167 51 50,366
Alt Penedès 11,743 11,320 2,381 752 381 272 137 24 27,010
Alt Urgell 4,455 1,359 934 242 85 62 13 1 7,151
Alta Ribagorça 899 237 15 17 39 42 11 1 1,261
Anoia 16,757 10,144 2,853 1,018 340 361 89 9 31,571
Bages 17,431 10,721 7,140 2,625 823 736 213 51 39,740
Baix Camp 19,119 12,329 3,152 998 370 486 362 91 36,907
Baix Ebre 15,856 6,145 1,758 358 132 96 86 40 24,471
Baix Empordà 25,321 18,822 2,848 915 761 455 150 33 49,305
Baix Llobregat 51,907 25,634 7,368 1,861 1,520 1,465 991 313 91,059
Baix Penedès 17,985 12,479 1,950 619 432 493 231 38 34,227
Barcelonès 85,646 5,529 1,519 1,072 1,521 2,427 2,406 1,730 101,850
Berguedà 6,054 2,998 1,710 701 252 108 30 2 11,855
Cerdanya 3,884 3,505 1,062 425 262 124 34 2 9,298
Conca de Barberà 5,142 3,929 745 178 39 26 8 3 10,070
Garraf 15,325 8,997 2,163 525 746 552 186 71 28,565
Garrigues 4,933 2,967 1,084 539 23 24 9 1 9,580
Garrotxa 7,153 6,004 2,153 776 98 54 19 2 16,259
Gironès 13,168 9,951 3,059 1,000 647 864 371 84 29,144
Maresme 42,595 23,779 6,560 1,936 1,126 1,101 617 138 77,852
Montsià 13,327 5,891 1,511 451 165 130 71 11 21,557
Noguera 7,055 4,308 1,524 543 91 81 22 0 13,624
Osona 12,899 14,476 7,256 2,243 598 333 174 50 38,029
Pallars Jussà 4,249 803 164 119 101 84 10 1 5,531
Pallars Sobirà 2,646 396 186 62 66 44 10 1 3,411
Pla d'Urgell 3,135 4,568 2,229 330 69 55 17 1 10,404
Pla de l'Estany 3,798 3,178 901 211 104 100 32 4 8,328
Priorat 3,869 1,593 582 163 5 7 2 0 6,221
Ribera d'Ebre 5,266 2,933 778 240 35 33 19 3 9,307
Ripollès 4,473 2,404 952 353 228 99 13 2 8,524
Segarra 3,334 2,293 1,148 446 122 28 9 1 7,381
Segrià 14,437 9,135 5,229 2,027 466 648 384 50 32,376
Selva 19,801 18,907 4,095 912 465 425 228 36 44,869
Solsonès 1,961 1,149 855 308 66 45 24 1 4,409
Tarragonès 18,261 13,904 2,295 509 365 456 573 263 36,626
Terra Alta 3,353 1,862 568 331 8 2 3 0 6,127
Urgell 5,544 3,557 1,357 574 128 118 63 5 11,346
Val d'Aran 2,588 644 259 110 102 66 12 7 3,788
Vallès Occidental 68,397 35,089 11,632 3,672 1,946 2,092 1,448 404 124,680
Vallès Oriental 29,883 34,592 8,814 2,338 977 775 346 62 77,787
Catalonia 626,931 363,370 107,664 33,937 16,379 15,815 9,630 3,595 1,177,321
Metropolità 278,428 124,623 35,893 10,879 7,090 7,860 5,808 2,647 473,228
Comarques Gironines 98,403 78,223 18,274 5,405 2,912 2,386 980 212 206,795
Camp de Tarragona 54,984 37,637 7,383 2,048 845 1,032 985 365 105,279
Terres de l'Ebre 37,802 16,831 4,615 1,380 340 261 179 54 61,462
Ponent 38,438 26,828 12,571 4,459 899 954 504 58 84,711
Comarques Centrals 38,345 29,344 16,961 5,877 1,739 1,222 441 104 94,033
Alt Pirineu i Aran 18,721 6,944 2,620 975 655 422 90 13 30,440
Penedès 61,810 42,940 9,347 2,914 1,899 1,678 643 142 121,373
Barcelona 358,551 183,294 59,273 18,723 10,220 10,221 6,637 2,854 649,773
Girona 100,642 80,808 19,096 5,679 3,141 2,504 1,013 214 213,097
Lleida 56,967 32,321 15,347 5,488 1,401 1,304 585 70 113,483
Tarragona 110,771 66,947 13,948 4,047 1,617 1,786 1,395 457 200,968
Source: Idescat, based on the Census of Buildings INE's.
Note: Law 23/2010, of July 22, on the creation of the area of Penedès, divides Catalonia into eight territorial planning areas. This change implies that the data for the Metropolitan Area, Central Counties and Camp de Tarragona are not directly comparable with previous years.

Last update: December 19, 2013.

Methodological note

Definition of concepts

Building (Building census 2011)
Permanent construction, apart and independent, to be used as housing or for rural, industrial, service provision purposes or, in general, to perform any activity (administrative, comercial, industrial, cultural).
Garage
Structurally separate and independent facility within a building that is used for parking vehicles.
Family dwelling (census)
Room or set of rooms that occupy a building or a part of it that is structurally separate and that, due to the way in which it is constructed, reconstructed or transformed is used as housing by one or several people and is not used for other purposes. This includes: main home, second home or unoccupied home.

Methodological aspects

The Census of Buildings is the set of operations of collection, processing, evaluation and data analysis of existing buildings of a country with reference to a particular time or period. It is done every ten years to determine the number, geographic distribution and characteristics of the existing buildings on the reference date. In Spain, the Census of Buildings is a national operation, conducted by the National Statistics Institute (INE).

The Census of Buildings 2011 is a statistical operation that took place at the reference date of November 1, 2011 in conjunction with the Population and Housing Censuses 2011. It has been designed to collect comprehensive information of all the completed buildings that contain at least one dwelling, with enumeration of all properties located in them and determination of their basic characteristics.

The objectives of Census of Buildings are:

  • enumerate and geo-reference all buildings that contain at least one dwelling
  • determine the characteristics of buildings
  • enumerate all properties contained in each building
  • select the properties that will form part of the Population and Housing Survey
  • provide a georeferenced comprehensive directory of buildings that contain at least one dwelling and all its properties. Georeferencing allows the exact identification of buildings despite changes in the address and, consequently, their unambiguous identification.

The scope of the Census of Buildings 2011 comprises all the buildings (regardless of their primary use) that are completed and contain at least one dwelling, with enumeration of all properties located in them. That is, buildings containing no dwelling are not included. This is the main difference compared to previous censuses. The Census of Buildings 2011 is limited to buildings containing at least one dwelling, and provides no information on other buildings. In previous censuses only buildings used exclusively for agricultural or livestock were excluded. In this census are excluded, as well, buildings that contain no dwelling, regardless of use.

Buildings that after to be totally or partially demolished were reconstructed and were not topped out at the census date.

Additionally, were not included:

  • Buildings that were demolished and those that were in a ruinous condition and uninhabited.
  • Constructions at squares, footways or recreational facilities for selling drinks, tobacco, press
  • Buildings for exclusively agricultural production purposes that at the same time were not used for family, collective housing purposes or for activities other than agricultural production.

The variables included in Census of Buildings 2011 are the following:

  • type of building
  • number of properties in the building
  • year of construction
  • number of floors
  • building condition
  • kind of dwellings
  • facilities

Census of Buildings 2001 was conducted in conjunction with Population and Housing Census 2001, at the reference date of November 1, 2001. It includes buildings for housing, both family and collective, as well as buildings for purposes other than housing, with the exception of those exclusively used for agricultural production. One difference respect previous censuses is that it only counts completed buildings.

Censuses of buildings 1980 and 1990 comprised all buildings for housing purposes and for other purposes, except those for exclusively agricultural production. These censuses also comprised completed buildings and those that were under construction and topped out, that is, those that already got finished the general structure of the building and had covered the last floor. The following buildings were excluded:

  • Buildings that were demolished or were empty because of their ruinous condition
  • Buildings for exclusively agricultural production purposes

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 "..".