Last year, 42 percent of the nearly eight million houses in our country were terraced houses. This is shown on Wednesday from figures from Statistics Netherlands about the housing stock. It is also noticeable that the number of so-called multi-family homes, for example a flat or apartment complex, is increasing rapidly.
What the residential area looks like now is a legacy of many years of construction, demolition and other types of houses becoming popular again.
For example, 19 percent (1.5 million) of the current houses are still pre-war. Of these, 30 percent is in a row, while 20 percent is detached. Those numbers show the changing nature of the stock. Since the war, many more terraced houses have been built, while relatively fewer detached houses have been added. One in eight houses is now detached.
In the post-war period – especially between 1965 and 1985 – relatively many terraced houses (at least three in one block) were added. As a result, according to CBS, at least four out of ten houses are now in a row. Most of these can be found in South Holland.
Terraced houses are closely followed by multi-family houses, which account for 36 percent of all homes. This type of housing has been built relatively often in recent years. Almost half of the newest houses are multi-family.
Detached houses are being built less and less. As a result, there are fewer and fewer houses in the housing stock without direct neighbors. That share has fallen to 13 percent since the war. This type of housing is mainly located in Friesland and Drenthe.