Wed, 27 May, 2015 12:09:08 AM FTimes Report, May 27 Share of household-dwelling units living in overcrowded dwellings in all household-dwelling units , %. Source: Dwellings and Housing Conditions, Statistics Finland. Living in overcrowded dwellings continued to be more widespread in Greater Helsinki in 2014, according to Statistics Finland.
In the whole country, there are 227,000 household-dwelling units in overcrowded conditions with 937,000 persons living in those.
Nineteen per cent of two million household-dwelling units were in overcrowded conditions in 1989 and the corresponding share was only around nine per cent in 2014, the data show.
The number of household-dwelling units in Finland was 2.6 million, 1.1 million of which were living alone, which is 42 per cent of all household-dwelling units, at the year end.
Overcrowding became more common particularly in foreign-language speaking household-dwelling units.
The number of foreign-language speaking household-dwelling units has doubled between 2005 and 2014.
In 2014, eighteen per cent of all household-dwelling units living in overcrowded conditions were foreign-language speakers. Overcrowded foreign-language speaking household-dwelling units comprised 165,000 persons.
In Greater Helsinki, the share of household-dwelling units living in overcrowded conditions in all household-dwelling units was falling until 2005, after which the share grew yearly.
The number of household-dwelling units living in overcrowded conditions in Greater Helsinki was at its lowest in 2006, when 46,700 household-dwelling units were overcrowded.
In 2014, 10.5 per cent of the 534,000 household-dwelling units in Greater Helsinki were in overcrowded conditions, which made up 56,000 household-dwelling units.
Seventy-four per cent of all household-dwelling units in overcrowded conditions were household-dwelling units with children.
A household-dwelling unit is defined as living in an overcrowded dwelling if it consists of more than one person per one room, when the kitchen is not counted as a room.
Household-dwelling units living in overcrowded conditions by language and area in 2005 to 2014
Source: Dwellings and Housing Conditions, Statistics Finland. More News
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