Live in Skaraborg – villa, farmhouse or condo; what’s your choice?

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Dreaming of a fin de siècle villa, a cottage by a lake, a child-friendly row house or maybe a farm with room for your own crops and a few hens? In Skaraborg, owner-occupied houses are the most common type of homes.

In Essunga municipality, almost 80 percent of all people live in a house they own. This is the highest figure among Skaraborg’s municipalities, but Skövde’s 50 percent is the real outlier. It’s quite simply common to live in a house you own in Skaraborg.

In many municipalities there’s also a relatively high proportion of people that live in houses they either rent or own as condos.

Rental apartments are the second most common form of housing in all municipalities, followed by condos in multi-family buildings. 

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* The sum of the various types of housing per municipality is not 100%. This is because information is sometimes lacking on the types of housing and because types of housing with a very low proportion are removed to improve the legibility of the diagram.

The dream of a home of their own makes many people choose Skaraborg

Many people and families choose to move to Skaraborg because they get a lot more home for their money here. There is information about the price per square meter of villas in each municipality on our municipal webpages. The average price of a villa in Skaraborg is around SEK 2 million. 

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And because more and more people are dreaming of a house near a lake or forest, it’s no wonder that Skaraborg quickly springs to mind. There are plenty of opportunities in Skaraborg to live in rural surroundings without being far from services such as grocery stores, preschools and schools.

Curious about housing in Skaraborg? You can find homes and apartments for sale throughout the area by entering Skaraborg in the area search on Booli.se.

So what are you waiting for, welcome to Skaraborg!

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The statistics above are taken from scb.se and refer to 2023. Use the statistics database to search for and compare the most common types of housing in different municipalities. 

Last published: 8/28/2024