Statistics of Actual Use in North Rhine-Westphalia

The basis for the statistics on actual use is that, according to the Agricultural Statistics Act, an area survey is generally carried out annually for the reporting period 31.12. of the previous year in Germany. Survey characteristics are the soil areas according to the type of actual use. Survey units of the land survey are municipalities and non-municipal areas. The authorities responsible for keeping the real estate register in accordance with state law are required to provide information for the area survey. In NRW, the Geodata Center at Geobasis NRW performs this task in accordance with the real estate cadastral decree. For this purpose, the secondary database of real estate registers is evaluated. All types of use of the user species groups are processed into the areas of settlement, traffic, vegetation and water according to the usage species catalogue NRW (see Annex 1 to the Property Register Order NRW at www.recht.nrw.de).A complete list and further information can be found in the document “Supplementary Information”. The surfaces are determined for actual use taking into account the distortion of the image from the geometric ALKIS objects and are not compared to the book area of the parcels below. Only the types of use on the Earth’s surface are taken into account. The overlapping uses (e.g. road over river) are not evaluated. The treatment contains the official key, the name and the aggregated uses (each type of use area, usage group and type of use) for each municipality, district or district-free city, administrative district and for NRW, with data on the floor area in square meters. Status of the data used: 01.01.2023.