Abu Dhabi: Number of homes

[StevieBee]

Would anyone have a rough idea of the number of residential dwellings there are in Abu Dhabi.

There's a lot of variation in the usual stats sites!

Cheers

[Mattt]

Including individual apartments?

[Hitch78]

I doubt even the government have a correct number. The general consensus though is: not enough!

[StevieBee]

Mattt said:

Including individual apartments?

Yep.

It's for Abu Dhabi city rather than the entire Emirate.

From what I have found, it looks like there's about 950,000 people living in the city so a standard metric of around 2.4 per home would suggest around 400,000 properties. Does that sound right?

[Hitch78]

Not sure if a standard occupancy rate would work as a multiplication factor here as the demographics are not representative of a normal society i.e there must be much higher rates of single occupancy for single professionals and even a lower ratio of children per household for both unmarried and married couples.

Are high occupancy groups including labourers and low wage service industry workers included in that pop figure too?

[StevieBee]

Thanks for the input chaps.

Seems that the assumption that the government does know is about right but estimates put the figure at around 350k to 380k so I wasn't far out.