Commissioning of housing in Ukraine in 2022 decreased by 37.8% compared with 2021 – to 7 million 110.2 thousand square meters, the State Statistics Service said.
According to the report, 4 million 752 thousand square meters. m housing (66.8% of the total volume) was commissioned in urban areas in 2022, 2 million 357 thousand square meters. m in rural areas. However, 39.1% of the total volume of housing was commissioned in one-family houses, 60.7% – in houses with two or more apartments, less than 0.1% – in dormitories.
A total of 92.5 thousand apartments were commissioned last year, which is 38.9% less than in 2021. In this regard, 68.9 thousand apartments were commissioned in the cities, while 23.6 thousand apartments – in the villages.
Following the results in 2022 the most housing was commissioned in the Kiev (1 million 456.9 thousand square meters. m, 20.5% of the total volume), Lviv (720.5 thousand square meters. m, 10.1%), Odessa (694.3 thousand square meters. m, 9.8%), Ivano-Frankivsk (493.2 thousand square meters. m, 6.9%) and Vinnitsa (404.5 thousand square meters. m, 5.7%) regions and Kyiv (908 thousand square meters. m, 12.8%).
According to statistical data, an increase in the volume of housing to the previous year was recorded in Vinnitsa (10.6 percentage points), Chernigov (7 percentage points, to 102.9 thousand square meters. m) and Poltava regions (47.9 percentage points, to 235.9 thousand square meters). The remaining Oblasts demonstrated a decrease in the volume of commissioned housing.
The data includes housing commissioned under the temporary procedure for commissioning houses built without a permit for construction work, as well as excluding the temporarily occupied territory of the Crimea and Sevastopol and parts of the temporarily occupied territories in Donetsk and Luhansk regions, reminds the State Statistics Service.
