Editing Demographics of Croatia (section)

===Urbanisation and housing===
2011 census recorded a total of 1,534,148 private households in Croatia as well as 1,487 other residential communities such as retirement homes, convents etc. At the same time, there were 1,923,522 permanent housing units—houses and apartments.<ref name="cbs-2011">{{cite web|url=http://www.dzs.hr/Eng/censuses/census2016/htm/e11_RH.html |title=Census 2011 First Results |publisher=[[Croatian Bureau of Statistics]] |date=29 June 2011|url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111114150141/http://www.dzs.hr/Eng/censuses/census2011/htm/e11_RH.html |archive-date=14 November 2011}}</ref> 2001 census recorded 1.66&nbsp;million permanent housing units, including 196&nbsp;thousand intermittently occupied and 42&nbsp;thousand abandoned ones. Average size of a permanently used housing unit is {{convert|74.4|m2|abbr=off}}. The intermittently used housing units include 182&nbsp;thousand [[vacation house]]s and 8&nbsp;thousand houses used during agricultural works. The same census also recorded 25&nbsp;thousand housing units used for business purposes only.<ref>{{Croatian Census 2001 |url=http://web.dzs.hr/Hrv/censuses/Census2001/Popis/H03_01_01/H03_01_01.html|title=Stanovi prema načinu korištenja, po gradovima/općinama, popis 2001|access-date=28 November 2011}}</ref> As of 2007, 71% of the households owned their own housing and had no mortgage or other loans to repay related to the housing, while further 9% were repaying loans for their housing. The households vary by type and include single households (13%), couples (15%), single parent households (4%), couples with children (27%) and extended family households (20%).<ref name="UNDP-HR"/> There are approximately 500 homeless persons in Croatia, largely living in Zagreb.<ref>{{cite web|publisher=[[Nova TV (Croatia)]]|url=http://dnevnik.hr/vijesti/hrvatska/aih-sve-je-vise-beskucnika-a-time-se-nitko-ne-bavi.html|language=hr|title=Sve više beskućnika u Hrvatskoj, a time se nitko ne bavi|date=20 March 2010}}</ref>

Average [[urbanisation]] rate in Croatia stands at 56%, with the maximum rate recorded within the territory of the City of [[Zagreb]], where it reached 94.5% and Zagreb metropolitan area comprising the City of Zagreb and the [[Zagreb County]], where it stands at 76.4%.<ref>{{cite journal|journal=Info|date=June 2009|volume=3|publisher=[[City of Zagreb]]|url=http://www.zagreb.hr/UserDocsImages/strategijsko_planiranje/info_03.pdf|language=hr|title=Demografska istraživanja|pages=6–9|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110908121347/http://www.zagreb.hr/UserDocsImages/strategijsko_planiranje/info_03.pdf|archive-date=8 September 2011|url-status=dead}}</ref> Very significant rate of urbanisation was observed in the second half of the 20th century. 1953 census recorded 57% of population which was active in agriculture, while a census performed in 1991
noted only 9.1% of population active in that field. This points to augmentation of urban population and reduction of rural population.<ref>{{cite journal|journal=Društvena Istraživanja|publisher=Institut društvenih znanosti IVO PILAR|issn=1330-0288|language=hr|title=Razvojni ciljevi i naslijeđena razvojna ograničenja hrvatskih srednjih gradova|author=Ognjen Čaldarović|pages=71–86|url=http://hrcak.srce.hr/index.php?show=clanak&id_clanak_jezik=49925|volume=8|issue=1|date=April 1999}}</ref>