Statistics on Main Characteristics of the Population and Housing. Main dwellings. 2021
36.6% of the dwellings stated that they were not accessible. By year of construction, 52.1% of dwellings built before 1941 were not accessible, while the percentage drops to 23.4% for dwellings built after 2000.
External noise (37.7%), poor street cleaning (26.8%), crime or vandalism (26.8%) and few green areas (21.9%) were the main environmental problems of the dwellings.
By municipality size, environmental problems are, in general, greater the larger the number of inhabitants of the municipality, except for problems of poor communications, which are more frequent in municipalities with less than 50,000 inhabitants (18.9%).
On a scale of 0 to 10, 3.4% of the dwellings were in buildings in a poor state of repair (0 to 4) and 17.1% in a fair state of repair (5 and 6). 22.9% were in a poor state of repair. 22.9% were in a normal state of repair (7), 31.4% in a good state of repair (8), 15.7% in a very good state of repair (9) and 9.6% in an excellent state of repair (10). By year of construction, 28.1% of the dwellings built before 1941 and 32% of those built from 1941 to 1960 stated that the state of repair was poor or fair.
5.9% of the dwellings had some form of renewable energy device installed in the building. 3.8% of the dwellings had thermal solar energy, 1.7% had photovoltaic solar energy and 0.6% had wind or other types of energy.
86.5% of the dwellings had some kind of heating system, which can be individual heating (65.3%), collective heating (5.1%) or portable heating appliances and electric radiators (16.0%). The main fuels are natural gas (56.9%), electric energy (25.6) and oil or oil derivatives (9.7%). According to the year of construction, 22.5% of the dwellings built from 1941 to 1960 had no heating, while the percentage is 6.3% in dwellings built after 2000.
55.1% of the dwellings had some form of cooling system. According to the net monthly household income, the percentage of dwellings with a cooling system is 37.7% in households with less than 1,000€ and 69.8% in households with 3,000€ or more.
91.5% of the dwellings had a separate kitchen, 99.7% had a bathroom with toilet and 99.6% had a bath or shower. 48.9% had one bathroom or toilet, 42.4% had two and 8.6% had three or more. The most common household appliance is the washing machine (98.7% of dwellings) and the least common is the tumble dryer (32.8%).
Idescat extends the publication of the results of the Statistics on Main Characteristics of the Population and Housing 2021. The results are disseminated for main dwellings, which include information on tenure status, year of construction, useful floor area, number of bedrooms, infrastructures and services, surroundings of the main dwellings, characteristics of the buildings and building installations.
The Statistics on Main Characteristics of the Population and Housing is compiled from the sample survey carried out by the National Statistical Institute (INE) and offers complementary information on the results of the Population and Housing Census 2021 about dwellings.