In brief
Nobody lives permanently in Hietalahti (65130). The area has 2,805 jobs.
Key figures
Residents and households 2024, prices and rents from the latest quarters
- Price per m², 1 bedroom
- €2,280
- Figure for Vaasa
- Vaasa€1,997
- Rent per m², 1 bedroom
- €13.46
- Figure for Vaasa 2
- Vaasa€14.15
- Residents
- 0
- Mean age–
- Disposable monetary income, median
- –
- Vaasa€25,231
- Finland€26,351
- Households renting
- –
- of 0 households
- Vaasa45%
- Finland38%
- University or college degree
- –
- of residents aged 18 or over
- Vaasa38%
- Finland36%
Housing costs
Price per m²
€2,280
Figure for Vaasa
Sales of old flats in blocks of flats, 2026 Q2, 57 sales
Rent per m² a month
€13.46
Figure for Vaasa 2
New leases, non-subsidised flats, 2026 Q3
Vaasa: €14.15
- Price-to-rent ratio
- 14.1 years
- Vaasa: 11.8
- Gross rental yield
- 7.1%
- Vaasa: 8.5%
- Middle half of rents, € a month
- 530–€660
- Figure for Vaasa 2, 2026 Q3
- Maintenance charge
- €4.55
- Average per m² a month, Finland outside Greater Helsinki, 2025
- Change a year
- 10 yrs5 yrsPrice-1.6%-0.1%Rent+1.0%+1.3%
- Average of the price index (Vaasa) and rent index (Vaasa)
Source: Statistics Finland
Statistics Finland has published no yearly prices for this postal code area in recent years, because there were too few sales.
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Age
HietalahtiVaasa
Source: Statistics Finland, Paavo, statistics year 2024 · Share of residents in each age group.
Main activity
- Hietalahti
- Vaasa46%11%22%14%
- Finland43%26%15%
Source: Statistics Finland, Paavo, statistics year 2024 · Share of all residents. Unemployment is counted for ages 16 to 64.
- Mean age
- –
- Vaasa: 42.0
- Unemployed, share of the labour force
- –
- Vaasa: 9%
- Household size
- –
- Vaasa: 1.9
- Floor area per person
- – m²
- Vaasa: 40.3 m²
Households and homes
Tenure
- Hietalahti
- Vaasa54%45%
- Finland61%38%
Source: Statistics Finland, Paavo, statistics year 2024 · Share of households.
Dwellings
- Hietalahti
- Vaasa64%34%
- Finland48%50%
Source: Statistics Finland, Paavo, statistics year 2024 · Share of dwellings by building type.
Household types
HietalahtiVaasa
- Living alone–, Vaasa 49%
- Living alone, under 35–, Vaasa 21%
- Couple under 35, no children–, Vaasa 6%
- With children–, Vaasa 18%
- With a child under 3–, Vaasa 4%
- Single parent–, Vaasa 4%
- All members aged 18–64–, Vaasa 54%
- At least one member 65 or over–, Vaasa 27%
Source: Statistics Finland, Paavo, statistics year 2024 · Share of households. A household can belong to several types.
- Average dwelling size
- – m²
- Vaasa: 73.8 m²
- Dwellings
- 0
- Summer cottages
- 0
Education and income
Highest qualification
- Hietalahti
- Vaasa20%11%31%24%14%
- Finland22%36%22%13%
Source: Statistics Finland, Paavo, statistics year 2024 · Share of residents aged 18 or over.
Income groups
- Hietalahti
- Vaasa23%60%18%
- Finland20%60%20%
Source: Statistics Finland, Paavo, statistics year 2024 · Share of residents aged 18 or over in each national income group. Across Finland the groups hold 20%, 60% and 20% of adults.
- Inhabitants' disposable monetary income, median
- –
- Vaasa: €25,231
- Households' disposable monetary income, median
- –
- Vaasa: €34,619
- University or college degree
- –
- Vaasa: 38%
Jobs
Largest industries
HietalahtiVaasa
- Health and social work86%, Vaasa 19%
- Public administration and defence14%, Vaasa 6%
- Wholesale and retail trade0%, Vaasa 8%
- Accommodation and food services0%, Vaasa 3%
- Other services0%, Vaasa 2%
- Agriculture, forestry and fishing0%, Vaasa 0%
Source: Statistics Finland, Paavo, statistics year 2024 · Share of jobs with a known industry.
- Jobs located here
- 2,805
- Jobs per resident
- –
- People working in the area divided by people living there
- Vaasa: 0.57
Sectors
- Hietalahti100%
- Vaasa28%72%
- Finland20%77%
Source: Statistics Finland, Paavo, statistics year 2024
Change since 2010
Permanent residents at the end of each year. Source: Statistics Finland, Paavo.
Income after taxes and compulsory payments, including transfers received. Euros of each year, not adjusted for inflation. Source: Statistics Finland, Paavo.
Neighbouring areas
Definitions and sources
- Residents
- People whose permanent home was in the area on 31 December, placed by the coordinates of their building. About 1% of residents have no coordinates and appear only in city figures.
- Income
- Disposable monetary income of residents aged 18 or over: earnings, business and property income and transfers received, minus taxes and other transfers paid. In euros of each year.
- Households
- People living permanently in the same dwelling. Household types overlap.
- Prices
- Average debt-free prices per m² of old flats in housing companies. A postal code area with too few sales gets the figure of its price area or city.
- Rents
- Average rents per m² of non-subsidised flats in new leases, by rent area.
- Small areas
- Statistics Finland withholds details of areas with fewer than 30 residents, households or adults, with fewer than 10 dwellings or only one building, or with fewer than 10 jobs.
Source: Statistics Finland: postal code area statistics (Paavo) 2024, prices of old dwellings, rents of dwellings (CC BY 4.0).