# How many homes were unoccupied in your county?

Choose a Romanian county or Bucharest and compare the conventional dwellings recorded as unoccupied in the 2021 census. See main, secondary and holiday dwellings separately.

https://mariuscomper.uk/en/housing/

- [London's protected views: 13 sightlines and the rules on building heights](https://mariuscomper.uk/london-protected-views/): London's planning rules protect thirteen lines of sight to St Paul's, the Palace of Westminster and the Tower; the longest runs 15.6 km from a gap kept in a hedge in Richmond Park. All thirteen, drawn from the government's 2012 Directions, with the height limit under each, the real ground and roofs from laser survey, and a postcode look-up.
- [Bucharest noise map by address: modelled road-noise levels around every building, school and park](https://mariuscomper.uk/harta-zgomotului-bucuresti/en/): The City's official noise maps existed only as PDF images. Type a street and number to see the modelled level around the building, at night and as a 24-hour average, against the WHO limit of 45 dB. Nearly 9 in 10 homes exceed it at night.
- [The tallest building in Bucharest, 1933 to today: the four that held the record](https://mariuscomper.uk/cel-mai-inalt-din-bucuresti/en/): The Telephone Palace, Casa Scînteii, Tower Center International and Sky Tower drawn to one scale beside a ruler in metres, plus a 250 m chimney. You climb the ruler with the text, see who held the record and for how long, and choose the floors of your own block to find which record it would have broken.
- [Bucharest's red-dot buildings, one by one](https://mariuscomper.uk/cladiri-cu-risc-seismic/en/): Search a street and see the buildings on Bucharest's official seismic-risk list in 3D. Of the 2,796 addresses on the 19 May 2026 list, 2,623 could be placed on the map; the others remain in the table.
- [The 1977 earthquake, over today's red-dot buildings](https://mariuscomper.uk/cutremurul-peste-bulina/en/): Follow the 1977 wave across a 3D map of Bucharest, see the damage recorded for each square kilometre and search today's seismic-risk list. The historic record describes map squares, not what happened to any one building.
- [Eixample, Barcelona: what was built in Cerdà's courtyards, block by block](https://mariuscomper.uk/jardinele-lui-cerda/en/): In 1859 Cerdà drew blocks built along their edges with open middles. Spain's cadastre, building by building: across 470 blocks, 73.8% of the ground is built at street level and only 54.7% from the first floor up. The Eixample in three dimensions, cut at any floor, and the rules that roofed the courtyards, from 1859 to today.
- [The Empty House — 1 in 4 Dwellings Stands Empty](https://mariuscomper.uk/casele-goale/en/): The 2021 Census counts 2.53 million unoccupied dwellings — 25.5% of the housing stock. In Mehedinți 36.3% are empty. County map, breakdown and why the rural empty stock does not solve city rents.
- [Romania Keeps Building. But For Whom?](https://mariuscomper.uk/constru-pentru-cine/en/): Romania's national statistics office counts, every year, how many dwellings exist in every locality. Since 1992 the housing stock has grown 29,5%, even as the domiciled population fell 8,3% — and in 65,2% of 2.946 localities, housing grew exactly where people left.
- [Emptying of people, not of homes](https://mariuscomper.uk/orasul-care-se-intinde/en/): Of 1,979 Romanian localities that had fewer residents in 2020 than in 2000, 1,556 have more dwellings. Look up your own place and see on a satellite image how much ground under buildings was added.
- [The Housing Paradox](https://mariuscomper.uk/paradoxul-locuirii/en/): 95.3% homeowners on paper, 40.5% overcrowding inside the rooms. How the 1990 fire sale produced a nation of asset-rich, cash-poor owners.
- [When did modernity reach your town?](https://mariuscomper.uk/modernitatea/en/): A year-by-year timeline of water, sewerage, gas and district-heating networks for 3,181 Romanian localities from 1990 to 2025. Modernity arrived in layers: 1,065 have piped water but no sewerage, and 56 of 382 district-heating systems remain.
- [Panel Block Civilization](https://mariuscomper.uk/civilizatia-de-la-bloc/en/): The ethnography of the stairwell, concrete, and forced proximity: 8.4 million Romanians in an endless acoustic and spatial experiment. 36 field rules, the interactive noticeboard, and the stairwell friction audit.
- [One home in four](https://mariuscomper.uk/o-casa-din-patru/en/): The law requires the policy on every dwelling. PAID’s 31 July 2026 table shows 24.9%. In Pechea, after the flood, policies rose from 248 to 962.
- [Vatra](https://mariuscomper.uk/vatra/en/): Romania's 2021 census: 42.6% of dwellings report wood heat, and 4.97% have no heating at all. An interactive map of all 42 counties.
- [What Does a Month in Romania Cost? A Budget Simulator](https://mariuscomper.uk/cat-costa-o-luna/en/): Single-person monthly budget simulator for Bucharest: observed food basket, official STB passes, PMB taxi rates, ECB conversion to yuan; no rent figures (portal terms), you enter yours.
- [Barcelona’s 2028 Airbnb question](https://mariuscomper.uk/barcelona-airbnb-2028/en/): Barcelona plans to end its current HUT licences in 2028. This guide examines the housing conversion, event capacity, law, evidence and the case for both regulated Airbnb and phase-out.
- [Urban shadow](https://mariuscomper.uk/umbra-urbana/en/): An interactive view of daylight: choose a city, move the hour, and watch the sun, building, and shadow reshape the same day.
- [Rent control: who gets the next key?](https://mariuscomper.uk/urmatoarea-cheie/en/): An explainer about the real gain for protected tenants and the cost rent control can shift onto people looking for the next home.
- [A City with Two Housing Policies](https://housing-scarcity.mariuscomper.uk/en/): How cities can finance affordable housing while planning preserves scarcity: four tools, political incentives and later evidence.
- [Romania’s Planning Code: which rules apply to your land or file](https://mariuscomper.uk/codurbanism/en/): What the Code says, what the ministry says and what city halls are doing: new forms, deadlines and clarifications, with current sources.
- [How Bucharest spread into Ilfov since 1975: a satellite map of buildings, locality by locality](https://mariuscomper.uk/bucurestiul-se-revarsa/en/): Ilfov now has more ground under buildings than Bucharest itself: since 1990, buildings have covered 42.1 km² of new ground in Ilfov and 11.1 km² in the city. The 1975–2020 satellite map for every street, neighbourhood and commune, with census population.

## Sources

- [[object Object]](https://www.recensamantromania.ro/rezultate-rpl-2021/rezultate-definitive-fondul-de-cladiri-de-locuit/)
- [[object Object]](https://www.recensamantromania.ro/rezultate-rpl-2021/rezultate-definitive-locuinte-si-conditii-de-locuit/)