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Region Hovedstaden in numbers.

The buildings in the region's 29 municipalities, added up. Counts only — no addresses.

The buildings in Region Hovedstaden

22
WhatNumber of buildingsShare of all
Buildings used as homes (BBR group «bolig», residential)311,90336.8 %
Buildings on a plot with a registered oil tank in use — garages too, not «has an oil boiler»76,3409.0 %
Roofing code 5 «Clay tiles»147,22217.4 %
Roofing code 7 «Thatch»8,2901.0 %
Holiday homes (group «sommerhus»)37,6994.4 %
Roofing codes 1 and 2 «Roofing felt, low/steep pitch»240,14028.3 %
Blocks of flats (group «etagebolig»)32,0883.8 %
Detached single-family houses (group «enfamiliehus»)196,64023.2 %
Heating installation code 7 «Electric heating»55,6386.6 %
External wall code 5 «Timber»305,58436.1 %
All buildings in BBR's building index, including sheds, garages and carports847,245100.0 %
Buildings with construction year 1000, BBR's placeholder for «unknown»75,3938.9 %
Heating fuel code 3 «Liquid fuel», typically oil19,1322.3 %
Roofing code 3 «Fibre cement, including asbestos» — suspected asbestos, not a finding138,94216.4 %
Heating installation code 1 «District heating/block heating»157,49618.6 %
Heating installation code 5 «Heat pump»55,3466.5 %
External wall code 1 «Brick»364,99243.1 %
Asbestos-containing material registered in byg036 (codes 1–4); the field is almost empty in BBR1,3720.2 %
Heating fuel code 7 «Natural gas»104,87712.4 %
External wall code 3 «Fibre cement, including asbestos» — suspected asbestos, not a finding4,0550.5 %
External wall code 4 «Half-timbering»8,0200.9 %
Heating fuel code 4 «Solid fuel», e.g. wood and pellets8,1621.0 %

Source: BBR + DAR (Datafordeler) — bygningsindeks; grundareal fra Matriklen, jordforurening fra Danmarks Miljøportal (DKJord), fredning/SAVE fra Slots- og Kulturstyrelsen (FBB), energimærker fra Grundfasts energimærke-korpus via Grundfast · fetched

When were the buildings built?

Buildings in Region Hovedstaden by decade of construction
BuiltNumber of buildings
before 1900
34,859
1900–09
19,941
1910–19
13,761
1920–29
23,450
1930–39
39,107
1940–49
27,387
1950–59
58,623
1960–69
103,868
1970–79
118,962
1980–89
80,893
1990–99
58,699
2000–09
82,979
2010–19
67,642
2020–29
40,288
Buildings without a known year of construction are not in the figure. The latest decade is not over, so its bar only counts up to today.If the bar for the 2020s is tall even though the decade is not over, that is not a counting error. A lot was built around 2020, and Statistics Denmark measures the same rise in completed housing: 66,896 m² in Silkeborg Municipality in 2015 and 147,387 m² in 2020, 77,163 m² in Vejle Municipality in 2019 and 188,829 m² in 2020. Source: Statistics Denmark, table BYGV11, completed construction of detached houses, terraced, linked and semi-detached houses and blocks of flats, retrieved 3 October 2026.

The municipalities in Region Hovedstaden

29

The number next to each municipality: All buildings in BBR's building index, including sheds, garages and carports.

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