Most of the units were in Vienna (22 percent), followed by Lower Austria (19 percent), Upper Austria (16 percent), Styria (14 percent) and Tyrol (9 percent). Almost 7 percent of the apartments were in Carinthia, Salzburg reached 6 percent and Vorarlberg 4 percent. At 3 percent, the fewest residential units were in Burgenland.
The volume of completions will reach 71,163 units in 2021, the highest since the early 1980s. In 2020 and 2021, the number of built residential units was around 68,000, in 2012 construction activity reached around 50,000 apartments.
Upper Austria in second place
Most of the apartments were built in Vienna in 2021 with 16,528, whereby the units created through extension, construction or conversion work on existing buildings are not included in the data. It was followed by Upper Austria with 13,267 units, Lower Austria (11,863), Styria (10,986), Tyrol (6,857), Salzburg (3,711), Vorarlberg (2,982), Carinthia (2,888) and Burgenland (2,081).
Based on the population, 7.9 apartments per 1,000 inhabitants were built across Austria in 2021 (excluding Vienna extensions, construction and conversion work). Statistics Austria recorded the highest production rate with 9.0 in Tyrol, followed by Upper Austria and Styria with 8.8 each. In Vienna, the rate is also quite high at 8.6, but if the units created by means of extensions, construction and conversion work had been included, the rate would have increased again, according to the statisticians.
Nationwide, 58 percent of the apartments were multi-storey residential buildings. About a quarter of the units were built with one- and two-family houses, 18 percent with additions, conversions or alterations to existing buildings (not including Vienna). Less than 1 percent of dwellings were built in new mostly non-residential buildings.
Source: Nachrichten
