Soil occupancy according to the Land Registry

Soil utilisation and cadastral income according to the cadastral declaration on 1 January of the reference year Purpose and short description The soil occupation statistics since 1982 present an overview of the number of parcels, areas and unindexed cadastral incomes (K.I.) of all parcels and administrative units in Belgium. The source of this data is the FPS Finance. A distinction is made between the uncultivated and built-up plots: The uncultivated plots consist of: arable land grassland gardens and parks orchards forest wild land recreation, sport cadastral waters cadased roads other (n.e.c.) The cultivated plots consist of: apartments building house, farm annexes including greenhouses crafts and industrial buildings storage banks, offices buildings with commercial use public buildings utilities social and sick care education, research and culture worship recreation, sports other (n.e.c.) In addition to the built and unbuilt plots there are still the unstandardised plots and the uncatified area: The non-standard parcels are those to which the FPS Finance has not yet allocated a standardised Kadastrale Aard. This decreases over time and since 2010 it is 0: all parcels have since been assigned a standardised Kadastrale Nature. The sum of the areas of the uncultivated plots, the cultivated plots and the non-standardised area is also referred to as the cascaded area. The uncatified area consists of the area which is not divided into parcels. No Kadastrale Nature is assigned to this area. This is calculated by reducing the total unalterable total area of the administrative unit by the cadasated area. In both areas and cadastral incomes, a distinction is made according to the taxability. Most of the built-up and uncultivated plots are taxable: the owners must pay immovable withholding tax for the use. This is calculated according to the cadastral income. Some plots are non-taxable. This concerns, for example, public domains or government buildings. Total unalterable area until 2017 will be used to calculate the total unalterable area from the cadastral deposit. This database contains cadastral areas resulting from the successive updates of the municipal areas as originally defined during the Napoleonic period (when the Land Registry was established). As of 2018, the files from the CADGIS system will be used to calculate the total unalterable area. The areas in this database are based on digital files compiled using the latest measurement techniques and provide a more accurate picture of the effective area of the administrative units. The official total area of the administrative entities is rounded to the area unit “hectare” (ha). The interested user can also consult on Statbel the effectively measured area up to the level “centiare” (ca). Rounding to hectares for the official total area is necessary to offset any measurement errors between successive measurements. For example, for the municipality of Aartselaar: in 2019, the official total area was 1.102 ha, while the area effectively measured was 11,015.556 ca. For the calculation of the official total area of the arrondissements, provinces, regions and the State, the totals are calculated on the basis of the areas of the underlying municipalities expressed in centiare, and then rounded to hectares. In order to comply with international conventions, from 2018, the strip off the Belgian coast delimited by the dike and the low water line will also be charged to the uncatified area of the Belgian coastal municipalities. Population Belgian State Frequency Annual Timing publication Results available 10 months after the reference period