CENSUS OF NEW SOUTH WALES, 1901.—POPULATION., TABLE XI.—The Number and Proportion of Dwellings, Inhabited, Uninhabited, &c., and of other Buildings ; also the Number and Proportion built of various Materials.

BUILDINGS.	Number.	Proportion per cent.	MATERIALS OF WHICH BUILT.	Habitations.	Stores, Offices, &c.	Total Buildings.	Proportion per cent.
Inhabited houses	244,836	86.41	Stone	10,793	834	11,627	4.10
Inhabited stores, offices, &c.	118	0.04	Brick	92,879	5,273	98,152	34.64
Inhabited tents and camps	7,096	2.50	Concrete, adobe, pise	1,525	23	1,548	0.55
Inhabited public institutions	452	0.16	Iron	5,380	785	6,165	2.18
Vacant houses	14,831	5.23	Wood, slabs	140,482	6,132	146,614	51.74
Houses being built	1,438	0.51	Lath and plaster, wattle and dab, mud, bark	4,952	44	4,996	1.76
Total Habitations	268,771	94.85	Canvas, Calico	8,874	3	8,877	3.13
Stores, offices, &c., used as places of business only—not residences	14,581	5.15	Unspecified	3,886	1,487	5,373	1.90
Total Buildings	283,352	100.00	Total	268,771	14,581	283,352	100.00