Only 5.4% of Albanian families live in apartments built after 2016

2024-10-17 07:27:00, Sociale CNA

Only 5.4% of Albanian families live in apartments built after 2016

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After 2016, the construction sector was involved in rapid developments, mainly in the construction of residential housing in Tirana and the coast, but the data of Cens 2023 show that only 5.5% of Albanian families live in buildings built after 2016.

The majority of Albanian families, 37.5 percent of them, live in buildings that were built between 1981-2000. The second largest group of families lives in apartments built between 2011-2010, with 24%.

While 2.4 percent of families live in apartments that were built over 100 years ago.

The data suggest that a part of the apartments built after 2016 were either bought by foreigners or for investments by locals, but not occupied by residents living in Albania.

Of the total housing fund in buildings, 40% of them are empty according to Cens data, but in urban areas and mainly in Tirana, residential buildings are getting a new boost with the construction of luxury apartments in high towers.

Cens data show that in the whole country there are 755,950 family units, which live in 726,325 dwellings. From these figures it is learned that 30,000 families still share the apartment with another family.

Despite the wave of constructions and empty apartments, almost half of the households currently (47.1 percent) live in apartments with an area of ??40-69 square meters and only about a quarter (23.7 percent) had a useful space of 70-99 m2).

In 15% of the apartments live families that do not have a water supply network inside them.

Albania's population has decreased rapidly in the last three decades, while the housing stock is increasing. In 1990, the country's population was about 3.2 million inhabitants, while according to the 2023 census data, it was only 2.4 million inhabitants, with a 25% decrease from the fall of communism. In 2023, the census data revealed that over 12% of habitable dwellings had only one inhabitant.

In total, there are about 91,000 dwellings in which a single person lives in the entire country. These apartments are mainly owned by elderly people, with children in emigration and when one of the spouses has passed away.

From the stock of habitable units, about 202.8 thousand apartments are inhabited by only two people. Statistics experts show that the high number of houses inhabited by one person or only two people indicates the high flow of emigration of young people who have left their parents alone./ Monitor magazine.