73 meters and an LCD TV - a live Poles - Banker

average household in Poland use of the apartment with an area of ??73 square meters per person on an average of 26 sq m and one room – this is what the housing situation in a nutshell average person according to GUS data -u. Poles are investing in equipment of their homes. Successfully last year were mostly LCD and plasma TV.

Most space available to the farmers’ households. In 2012, there were an average of 118.2 square meters, and within 12 months, this value increased by 2 square meters per capita in most places are pensioners – more than 33 square meters, however, is due to the fact that a large group of in their case are holding single and double.

locale size decreases with an increase in the number of people inhabited the village. Villagers have the biggest houses, mostly single-family – on average they expect 95.7 sq m inhabiting large cities over 500,000 inhabitants, have at their disposal an average of 54 square meters Interestingly, the richest households (20 per cent. Highest income ) live in smaller places (mean 72.9 m) than the poorest (an average of 76.5 sq. m.) However, they have much more available space on a per person.

old, but warm enough

Central Statistical Office asked the respondents about the subjective evaluation of the operated housing. 86 percent. taking part in a panel GUS think their house is warm enough in the winter, and 80 per cent., that cool enough in the summer. In terms of housing, relatively few respondents complained. Most often in a noisy environment (15.8 per cent. In the city, 8.4 percent. Rural) and the poor condition of the building (9.1 per cent respectively., And 13.7 per cent.).

every third apartment in the city has more than 50 years. In the countryside the proportion is slightly higher – 39 percent. In new construction, the buildings created after 1996 years most farms metropolitan living. Most households living in the oldest buildings, pre-1946 years, located in the Lower Silesian, Opole and Lubusz. Youngest utilize housing residents of this region.

TV, internet, dishwasher

Statisticians of GUS also looked at household equipment. The data show clearly that the old technologies are slowly fading into oblivion. Waning holdings landline phone (a decrease of 4.7 percentage points per year), CRT televisions and CD players. In the country much faster than in the city arrives LCD televisions, computers with broadband Internet, dishwashers. At the same time reduce the differences in this respect between the wealthiest and the poorest.

Mobile now has 93.2 percent. households in the city and 89.5 percent. in the countryside. Dishwasher is already one in five dishes in the cities and 17 percent. houses in the countryside.

Percentage of households with selected goods by provinces in 2012

Source: “Household budgets in Poland in 2012,” the CSO.

Most motorists

Polish region of Wielkopolska is where two in three households own a car. In terms of the use of high-speed network leads Opole, but the fastest growth rate was recorded in the West – in the regions West and Lubusz.

Michael Kisiel, an analyst Bankier.pl

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