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 Buildings (No.)
Characteristic Description
Name Buildings (No.) by Geographic location at the Census moment [2021] (NUTS - 2024 - geography 2025), Time period of construction and Extent of the building's repair needs; Decennial
Regularity Decennial
Source Statistics Portugal, Population and housing census - 2021
First available period 2021
Last available period 2021
Dimensions
  • Data reference period
  • Geographic location at the Census moment [2021] (NUTS - 2024 - geography 2025)
  • Time period of construction
  • Extent of the building's repair needs
Concepts
  • BUILDING:  Permanent construction, endowed with independent access, covered and limited by exterior walls or dividing walls which extend from the foundations to the roof, whether designed for human use or other purposes.
  • NEED OF REPAIR OF THE BUILDING:  Verification of the need for intervention in the building.
  • PERIOD OF BUILDING CONSTRUCTION:  Period that may correspond to the construction of the building itself, to the construction of the main part of the building (when different parts of a building correspond to different eras) or to the reconstruction of the building that has undergone a complete transformation.
  • REFERENCE PERIOD:  Period to which the information refers and which may be a specific day or a time interval (month, fiscal year, calendar year, among others).
Measure unit (symbol) Number (No.)
Power of 10  0
Observations Population and housing censuses, 2021 Census
Last update date 05/02/2026


information presented in 7/2/2026