Eurostat “Urban Europe – Statistics on Cities, Towns and Suburbs”
“Urban Europe – Statistics on Cities, Towns and Suburbs”
Eurostat published this today. Its significance goes beyond research because Commission policy is influenced by the findings in an in-house document like this – as Regional Policy Commissioner Corina Creţu said in a press conference today.See in particular chapter 10 on housing in cities. It has charts or maps on:- Distribution of population by dwelling type and degree of urbanisation
- Cities with the lowest and highest proportion of houses in their total number of dwellings
- Dwellings by most common period of construction
- Areas with lowest and highest proportion of households that own their accommodation
- Cities with smallest and largest areas of average living space
- Proportion of one-person households
- Proportion of lone-parent households
- Proportion of people who agree that it is easy to find good housing at a reasonable price in their city
- Proportion of the population having moved dwelling within the previous five years, by degree of urbanisation and type of tenure
- Regions with the highest proportion of persons aged 30-49 having moved residence within the previous year