Share of vacant retail stores in the Netherlands 2016-2020

This statistic displays the share of vacant retail stores in the Netherlands from 2016 to 2020. It shows that between 2016 and 2019, the vacancy rate in the Netherlands decreased, only to increase again in 2020. In 2016, approximately 7.4 percent of the total retail stores in the Netherlands was vacant. By 2020, this was 7.3 percent of the retail stores.

The vacancy rate was highest in the province of Limburg in 2020. With a vacancy rate of 11 percent, the vacancy rate in Limburg was three percent above the national average.