Land use; all categories, municipalities
| Regions | Periods | Total surface (ha) | Transport Transport total (ha) | Transport Railroad (ha) | Transport Main road (ha) | Transport Airport (ha) | Built-up area Built-up area total (ha) | Built-up area Residential (ha) | Built-up area Retail trade, hotel and catering (ha) | Built-up area Public institutions (ha) | Built-up area Socio-cultural facilities (ha) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rotterdam (SG) | 2017 | ||||||||||
| Rotterdam (GA) | 2017 | ||||||||||
| Rotterdam | 2017 | 32,416 | 2,184 | 571 | 1,559 | 54 | 12,081 | 4,689 | 406 | 299 | 353 |
| Source: CBS. | |||||||||||
Dataset is not available.
This table provides information about the land use of the area of the Netherlands and the changes in land use.
Data available from: 1996.
Status of the figures:
The figures in this table are final.
Changes as of 26 April 2023:
Addition of 2017 figures.
This table is based on the Bestand Bodemgebruik (BBG), which literally translates as the ‘land use file’. For intervening base years without a BBG, this table just presents total area statistics for the presented regions.
Previously published base years in this table are never revised for corrections established when a newer BBG-edition is produced. Such corrections consist of corrections of earlier misinterpretations and of improved interpretations based on new sources. The corrections are recorded in the so-called Mutatiebestand (the mutations file) which is a digital map, being a part of each BBG publication. See Bestand Bodemgebruik for further information on correction of the land use statistics and for available publications.
As of reporting year 2016, Statistics Netherlands no longer publishes data on metropolitan agglomerations and urban regions. Various social developments have rendered the philosophy and methodology underlying the delineation outdated. It furthermore appears that other agencies are using a different classification of metropolitan agglomerations and urban regions depending on the area of application. This means there is no longer a consensus on which standard applies.
The metropolitan agglomerations and urban regions will not be published anymore from 2015 onwards as a default regional figure.
When will new figures be published?
After the addition of the 2017 land use figures all updates to this table will be stopped.
The methodology of the land use statistics, as it has been in use up to the 2017-edition, is being redesigned. See for further information on this redesign and the availability of land use statistics based on the new methodology the web page Bestand Bodemgebruik.
Description topics
- Total surface
- Total surface of the Netherlands.
- Transport
- Area in use for traffic and transport on roads, on railways and in the air.
- Transport total
- Total area of the main group ‘Transport’.
- Railroad
- Area in use for traffic and transport on railways.
Including
- slopes;
- dead end rails to industrial area;
- shunting area;
- railway yard including station buildings and adjacent parking areas.
Excluding
- narrow gauge, this is included at the adjacent land use.
- Main road
- Area in use for traffic and transport over the main road network.
Including
- roads with function of transportation artery;
- included green in connections with roads and inside roundabouts;
- parking areas;
- busstation;
- gasoilstation;
- storages for road maintenance.
Excluding
- included green, larger than 1 ha in use of agriculture or woodland;
- included water larger than 1 ha;
- main road under construction.
- Airport
- Area in use for traffic and transport in the air.
Including
- paved and unpaved airstrips;
- associated buildings and parking areas.
Excluding
- unpaved soil inside the enclosed airport (not belonging to airstrips);
- adjacent areas with services and industries.
- Built-up area
- Area in use for residents, work, shopping, cultural facilities and public amenities.
- Built-up area total
- Total area of the main group ‘Built-on area’.
- Residential
- Area mainly used for residents, including primary amenities.
Including
- housing areas;
- primary amenities e.g. (local) shops, primary schools;
- local offices of e.g. banks;
- green areas smaller than 1 hectare;
- streets and local parking areas;
- courtyards, gardens;
- playing grounds;
- trailer camp (excluding wreckage areas larger than 0,1 hectare).
If residential areas are inside woodland, the total area is assignated as residential if a street pattern can be recognized.
- Retail trade, hotel and catering
- Area in use for concentrated retail trade and catering activities.
Including
- shopping centre, often with a pedestrian zone (even if above the shops there are residents);
- markets of goods;
- area with companies in the hotel and catering industry;
- associated parking areas.
- Public institutions
- Area in use of general use, like community homes, police offices and utility services.
Including
- administration buildings;
- municipal offices (stadskantoor), office public works;
- border post (customs etc);
- provincial office;
- police offices, fire brigades, courts, jails;
- utility services (gas, water, electricity, central city heating and central areal parts-constructions) including the associated area;
- water treatment plant and incinerators, including the storage buildings;
- storage areas for the administration, excluding the ones for maintenance of roads;
- militair objects, like depots of ammunition, barracs, mobilisation complexes, radar posts and shooting ranges;
- fort (former);
- associated parking areas and forest- or shrublines.
Public services are mainly limited on the map by a fence. As the limit of the object, the location of the fence is used.
- Socio-cultural facilities
- Area in use by social and cultural facilities as hospitals, universities and musea.
Including
- secondary schools and schools of applied science;
- boarding school;
- conference centre;
- hospital, sanatorium, nursing home, psychiatrist hospital etc.;
- church, cloister, museum (including castles that are open to the public), excluding open air museum;
- theatre, cinema, concert- and congress hall;
- cultural centre;
- community centre, club house, youth association;
- sheltered workshop;
- associated parking areas and forest- or shrublines.
Social and cultural facilities are mainly limited on the map by a fence. As the limit of the object, the location of the fence is used.