 According to the 2011 census, there were 829,177 panel apartments in Hungary (18.9% of the dwellings) and were home to 1,741,577 people (17.5% of the total population).Panelház are not the only type of block of flats in Hungary; as of 2014, 31.6% of Hungarians lived in flats (according to data from Eurostat).After World War II a serious housing crisis developed in Hungary due to rapid population growth and urbanization.