In Drenthe, almost 30 percent of the houses are detached. This makes Drenthe, together with Friesland, the province where the most detached houses are located.
Of the nearly 8 million homes in the Netherlands, 42 percent are terraced houses. This makes this type of house, consisting of a block of at least three houses together, the most common. This is reported by Statistics Netherlands (CBS) today based on figures for early 2021.
Nationally, the percentage of detached houses is 13 percent. In Drenthe this is 29 percent, with Assen, Meppel and Hoogeveen standing out where the percentage of terraced houses is above 40 percent. Relatively speaking, the municipality of Borger-Odoorn has the fewest terraced houses. About 16 percent of the houses there are terraced houses.
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Of the 3.4 million terraced houses in the Netherlands, most are located in South Holland (683,000). That is 40 percent of the homes in this province. Also in North Brabant and North Holland are a large part of the terraced houses. Relatively speaking, the most detached houses can be found in the sparsely populated provinces of Friesland and Drenthe.
Statistics Netherlands found the type and year of construction for all houses in the Netherlands. The latter affects the type of home that is located somewhere. It has been built very differently over the years. For example, before the Second World War, relatively many multi-family homes were built, such as upstairs and downstairs apartments, and to a lesser extent apartments. The terraced houses are mainly a legacy of the sixties, seventies and eighties. More than half of all homes from that period are terraced houses. This is also the era in which most of the houses that still exist today were built.