02/23/2024 – 18:57
The proportion of people living in apartments in Brazil continues to grow. They went from 7.6% in 2000 to 8.5% in 2010 until reaching 12.5% registered in 2022.
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The information was collected by Demographic Census 2022, and released this Friday, 23, by IBGE (Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics).
+ Census shows that 84.8% of Brazilians live in houses, and 12.5% in apartments
According to the data, the municipalities of Santos (SP), Balneário Camboriú (SC) and São Caetano do Sul (SP) are the only ones among all 5,570 with a predominance of apartment residents. See the list below:
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Santos (SP)
At the top of the list appears the city of Santos (SP). It was the only municipality on the list in the 2010 Census that had 57.8% of the population in apartments. This percentage increased to 63.4% in 2022.
“It is a municipality with a large part of its area on an island, where the urban part is already fully occupied. Therefore, the expansion trend is verticalization. Part of what could be the outskirts and less dense regions of Santos are in neighboring municipalities”, explains Bruno Perez, research analyst.
Balneário Camboriú (SC)
The second place in the ranking, Balneário Camboriú (SC), in turn, reveals a different logic. It has seen intense furniture activity in recent years and is an important tourist destination in the South region.
The percentage of residents in apartments jumped from 48.9% to 57.2% from the 2010 Census to the 2022 Census.
“It’s a trend in economically valued coastal areas: a densification that generates verticalization to attract more people who want to be close to the beaches”, explains the researcher.
São Caetano do Sul (SP)
In third place is São Caetano do Sul (SP). According to Bruno, the municipality has a relatively small area, with a medium-sized population and is very much part of the São Paulo Metropolitan Region.
“In other words, it has similar characteristics to the area of the so-called Expanded Center of São Paulo: very dense and has considerable verticalization”, adds the analyst.
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