Online Address, Buildings and Dwellings Register

The Online Address, Buildings and Dwellings Register is the common recording pathway for the Address Register and the Buildings and Dwellings Register. It went live on 26 November 2004.

For reasons of access and usage rights, the Address Register and the Buildings and Dwellings Register are managed separately. The establishment of a common recording pathway guarantees consistent management of the address and building data in both registers. It also ensures that the municipalities, whose responsibility it is to maintain the two registers, do not have to enter data twice. Data processing can be done either via an Internet application (Web client), provided to the municipalities by Statistics Austria free of charge, or via an interface (XML client).

The Online Address, Buildings and Dwellings Register has brought about major changes for the municipalities. Because of the on-going updating of the address and building database, full surveys using questionnaires (which used to be carried out as part of the 10-yearly censuses) are no longer necessary. The reports of construction activities, which were previously sent in on a quarterly basis, can now be recorded online.

The municipalities are not however just data suppliers, they can also use the Online Address, Buildings and Dwellings Register for their own purposes. For instance, they can query specific data within their sphere of activity at any time, access standardised reports and carry out and work on analyses in accordance with self-defined criteria.

You can find the latest information about the Online Address, Buildings and Dwellings Register on this Internet page. In particular, the Download section contains various data files (e.g. manuals, list of characteristics, XML interface, information letters etc.) that you can download.

An integrated news service has been set up in the application itself, which allows Statistics Austria to send information directly to users. The municipalities also have the facility to send queries to Statistics Austria.

The municipalities can try out the various features of the application in a training version using mirrored address and building data from their own area without affecting the database of the Address Register or Buildings and Dwellings Register.