What kind of houses do Hungarians live in?
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Even though apartments are getting bigger and more comfortable, there is still a remarkable gap between certain parts of the country. There are homes that are not connected to the central water system, for example. The number of these houses can be even above 30 percent. On the Great Hungarian Plain, there are flats made of adobe, as portfolio.hu reports.
KSH (Hungarian Central Statistical Office) revealed its statistics from 2016 in connection with the residing circumstances in Hungary. There are some areas where serious changes are necessary but the good news is that all in all, the situation shows improvement.
Size
The general size of the apartments in 2016 was 82 m2, that is four square m2 bigger than in 2011. Half of the smaller homes (below 30 m2) were built before the war, only 5 percent after the millennium. A quarter of the bigger flats (above 100 m2) are newly constructed, namely younger than 25 years. The increase of this type of apartments is remarkable because every fourth home belongs to this category today. It is important to note that they are more common in the country, though.
Piped water
In 1949, piped water was accessible in only one-fifth of the houses. This number improved to half of the homes by 1970 and reached 80 percent by 1990. Finally, it was 98 percent in 2016. However, this number still does not reach 90 percent in BƔcs-Kiskun county. KSH explains this with the exceptionally high rate of periphery estates.
