Web database of sustainable settlements and neighbourhoods

Statistics

Comparison of Sustainable Settlements and Urban Quarters in Germany

State

Projects
Quantity**

WE*

Projects /
1. million p.e.*

WE each
1 million p.e.*

Inhabitants***

Baden-Württemberg

82

21.851

7,08

2.008

10.879.620

NRW

43

4.887

2,46

274

17.865.520

Bavaria

33

8.448

2,10

658

12.843.510

Schleswig-Holstein

22

392

7,70

137

2.858.710

Berlin

17

1.610

4,83

457

3.520.030

Hesse

17

1.478

2,75

239

6.176.170

Lower Saxony

10

3.395

1,26

428

7.926.600

Hamburg

10

4.175

5,59

2.336

1.787.410

Rhineland-Palatinate

7

867

1,73

214

4.052.800

Saxony

4

1.314

0,98

322

4.084.850

Brandenburg

4

178

1,61

72

2.484.830

Bremen

4

260

5,96

387

671.490

Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania

3

140

1,86

87

1.612.360

Saarland

3

44

3,01

44

995.600

Thuringia

3

123

1,38

57

2.170.710

Saxony-Anhalt

2

120

0,89

53

2.245.470

Total254 projects in Dt.49,282 residential units3.09 projects/1 million p.e.600 dwelling units/1 million inhabitants82,175,680 PE in Dt.

* Status: 30.9.2016
** Population - number of inhabitants of the federal states in Germany on 31 December 2015
Source: http://de.statista.com/…

Chronological overview

Decade

Number of projects
(Stand: 12. March 2024)

Residential units
(total)

In the making

37

2020-2029

24

2010-2019

74

2000-2009

87

1990-1999

113

1980-1989

29

Realization before 1980

9

Not realized

9

Total
(without "Not realized"); Note 1)

326


Note: while settlements and neighbourhoods with ecological-sustainable objectives from 1970 to 2009 are most likely fully inserted in the database, there are probably gaps in the period from 2010 onwards. One issue here is that due to the normality of the measures, many of the settlements no longer explicitly refer to themselves as 'ecological settlements'. They are also no longer published in the trade/media because there tends to be less innovation compared to the projects between 1980 and 2000. In this respect, I assume that the realised housing units of sustainable settlements will be somewhat higher from 2010 onwards.

Scale

Sizes-
Category
Sizes-
Assignment (GR)
Residential units
(total)
Number of
Settlements
XXLfrom 1,00042.02916
XL500 to 9997.67015
L200 to 4994.07516
M100 to 1993.90533
S30 to 993.27562
XS3 to 291.24484
(XXS)*< 3(9)(8)
Total:
(incl. XXS)
61.014**
(62.207)
226***
(226)

* Building / no settlement
** Status: 1.3.2017
*** Status: 2.1.2019, only realised settlements and quarters are counted

de Country

Inhabitants
(2012)

Settlement
Number

de Belgium

11.142.000

1

de Denmark

5.590.000

19

de Germany

81.890.000

250

de United Kingdom

63.228.000

5

de Finland

5.414.000

1

de France

65.697.000

2

de Greece

11.280.000

1

de Italy

60.918.000

4

de Netherlands

16.768.000

57

de Norway

5.019.000

2

de Austria

8.462.000

46

de Poland

38.543.000

1

de Portugal

10.524.000

1

de Switzerland

8.139.600

13

de Sweden

9.517.000

14

de Hungary

9.944.000

2

Sum*
Europe

412.075.600

419


* As of 30.9.2016. In Europe, not all settlement and neighbourhood projects with sustainability objectives are fully recorded or documented in the web database. While the project directory in Germany should be relatively complete, the European countries have not been systematically updated since 2003.

Archive:
Comparison of sustainable settlements in Germany as of 2009

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