The number of Saudi families and their homes

The details published by the Ministry in a special issue of its periodic newsletter included a data package

The Ministry of Housing has published a special issue of the "Periodic Housing Bulletin" on the latest developments related to the housing market in the Kingdom. It revealed an increase in the number of Saudi households from 2,996,253 families in 2010 to 3,591,098 families in the middle of 2018, with a growth rate of 19.85%.

The issue contains data, statistics and information for interested persons and housing sector specialists, based on their data and official sources from government agencies and related sectors.

The latest issue of the newsletter featured an analysis of the housing survey of the middle of 2018 "published by the General Organization of Statistics", which included an increase in the number of new Saudi households from 86,408 families in the middle of 2018 compared to 2017, with a growth rate of 2.47%.

The Mecca region increased by 2.88%, with a total of 896,168 households, an increase of 25,079 new households, while Riyadh recorded an increase of 2.5% and a total of 850,419 families. an increase of 20,749 new households.

The bulletin reported an increase in the percentage of Saudi households living in housing held at 60.49% in mid-2018, along with a decrease in the number of Saudi households living in rental housing, to 37.63% during the same period .

The Mecca region saw an increase in the number of Saudi households living in 531,487 housing units in mid-2018 compared with 511,285 in 2017, with a growth rate of 3.9%. In Riyadh, it rose from 464,876 housing units In 2017, to 478,147 in the middle of 2018, a growth rate of 2.8%, while in the East, went from 242,902 in 2017 to 252,003 in mid-2018, a growth rate of 3.7%. In addition, Al-Sharqiya was at the top of the list of housing provided by the employer, which reached about 7.07%.

The bulletin included a 6.13% increase in the number of households living in weapon houses, from 1,749,316 in 2017 to 1,856,541 in mid-2018.

According to the Housing Survey, the number of households owning a house under construction in the middle of 2018 amounted to 107,225, including the number of households receiving housing assistance in 2018, with 67 070 families, bringing the total to 174,295 families.

The Housing Newsletter draws on data from the Ministry of Housing as well as official sources from other government agencies and private sectors concerned (see https://www.housing.gov.sa/ in / periodical-). magazine.