Coastal flooding - Cities and FUAs — Built-up area exposure to in Santa Cruz
Santa Cruz: Coastal flooding - Cities and FUAs — Built-up area exposure to was 0.0202 Percentage of built-up area in 2022. ▼ Falling
Coastal flooding - Cities and FUAs — Built-up area exposure to in Santa Cruz, 2000–2022
Source: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. Measured in Percentage of built-up area.
Analysis
In 2022, coastal flooding - cities and fuas — built-up area exposure to in Santa Cruz stood at 0.0202 Percentage of built-up area. That is the lowest value across all 23 years on record.
Compared with earlier readings it is down 0.3% on the previous year and down 77.5% over ten years.
Over the whole period, coastal flooding - cities and fuas — built-up area exposure to in Santa Cruz peaked at 0.1036 Percentage of built-up area in 2000 and was at its lowest, 0.0202 Percentage of built-up area, in 2022.
Santa Cruz ranks 233rd of 1315 regions on this measure, in the top quarter.
The long-run direction has been consistently falling across the 23 years of available data.
Coastal flooding - Cities and FUAs — Built-up area exposure to in Santa Cruz, year by year
| Year | Percentage of built-up area | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 0.1036 Percentage of built-up area | — |
| 2001 | 0.1016 Percentage of built-up area | -2.0% |
| 2002 | 0.1004 Percentage of built-up area | -1.2% |
| 2003 | 0.0996 Percentage of built-up area | -0.8% |
| 2004 | 0.0988 Percentage of built-up area | -0.8% |
| 2005 | 0.0977 Percentage of built-up area | -1.1% |
| 2006 | 0.0964 Percentage of built-up area | -1.4% |
| 2007 | 0.0948 Percentage of built-up area | -1.6% |
| 2008 | 0.0928 Percentage of built-up area | -2.1% |
| 2009 | 0.0917 Percentage of built-up area | -1.2% |
| 2010 | 0.0909 Percentage of built-up area | -0.9% |
| 2011 | 0.0905 Percentage of built-up area | -0.5% |
| 2012 | 0.0897 Percentage of built-up area | -0.9% |
| 2013 | 0.0883 Percentage of built-up area | -1.5% |
| 2014 | 0.0868 Percentage of built-up area | -1.7% |
| 2015 | 0.0857 Percentage of built-up area | -1.2% |
| 2016 | 0.085 Percentage of built-up area | -0.9% |
| 2017 | 0.0845 Percentage of built-up area | -0.6% |
| 2018 | 0.0842 Percentage of built-up area | -0.3% |
| 2019 | 0.0838 Percentage of built-up area | -0.4% |
| 2020 | 0.0838 Percentage of built-up area | +0.0% |
| 2021 | 0.0202 Percentage of built-up area | -75.9% |
| 2022 | 0.0202 Percentage of built-up area | -0.3% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000s | 0.0977 Percentage of built-up area | 0.0917 Percentage of built-up area | 0.1036 Percentage of built-up area | 10 |
| 2010s | 0.0869 Percentage of built-up area | 0.0838 Percentage of built-up area | 0.0909 Percentage of built-up area | 10 |
| 2020s | 0.0414 Percentage of built-up area | 0.0202 Percentage of built-up area | 0.0838 Percentage of built-up area | 3 |
More reference data data for Santa Cruz
- Cooling and heating degree days - Cities and FUAs — Cooling degree 0.8771 Degree days (2025)
- Cooling and heating degree days - Cities and FUAs — Change in cooling -56.98 Degree days (2025)
- Cooling and heating degree days - Cities and FUAs 788.03 Degree days (2025)
- Cooling and heating degree days - Cities and FUAs — Change in heating -193.25 Degree days (2025)
- Precipitation - Cities and FUAs — Extreme precipitation days 7.95 Days per year (2024)
- Precipitation - Cities and FUAs — Change in extreme precipitation -0.8998 Days per year (2024)
- Exposure to extreme precipitation — Annual precipitation change 8.72 Millimetres per year (2023)
- Exposure to extreme temperature — Annual temperature change 0.1517 Degrees celsius (2023)
- Dependency ratio - Cities and FUAs 31 Percentage of population aged 15-64 years (2024)
- Wind threats - Cities and FUAs — Exposure to wind threats 23.44 Percentage of area (2023)
Frequently asked questions
- What is coastal flooding - cities and fuas — built-up area exposure to in Santa Cruz?
- Coastal flooding - cities and fuas — built-up area exposure to in Santa Cruz was 0.0202 Percentage of built-up area in 2022, according to Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.
- What is the highest coastal flooding - cities and fuas — built-up area exposure to recorded in Santa Cruz?
- The highest recorded value was 0.1036 Percentage of built-up area in 2000.
- What is the lowest coastal flooding - cities and fuas — built-up area exposure to recorded in Santa Cruz?
- The lowest recorded value was 0.0202 Percentage of built-up area in 2022.
- How does Santa Cruz rank for coastal flooding - cities and fuas — built-up area exposure to?
- Santa Cruz ranks 233rd out of 1315 regions with data for 2022.
- Is coastal flooding - cities and fuas — built-up area exposure to rising or falling in Santa Cruz?
- Over the last ten years it is down 77.5%. The long-run trend across the full record is falling.
- Where does this Santa Cruz data come from?
- The figures come from Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, published as part of Coastal flooding - Cities and FUAs — Built-up area exposure to coastal flooding. Statizoid updates them automatically from the source API.
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About this data
This dataset provides indicators of population and built-up exposure to coastal floods. Data sources and methodology Coastal flooding indicators are estimated using the Global coastal flood hazard maps (Muis, S. et al., 2016). This dataset provides the extent of coastal floods for different return periods (10 to 100 years) with a 1-kilometre resolution. A return period corresponds to the estimated time interval between floods of similar intensity. Built-up area exposure to coastal floods is computed by intersecting this map with Copernius annual land cover data (Copernicus Climate Change Service, Climate Data Store, 2019) and population exposure is computed using the Global Human Settlement Population layer (European Commission, GHSL Data Package 2023). Harmonised international hazard models are used to ensure global comparability, consistent modelling assumptions across countries, and complete subnational coverage. These estimates may differ from official subnational flood risk statistics due to differences in methodological approaches - such as the use of global, modelled top down hazard maps versus national hydrological models or administrative flood zone delineations - as well as variations in input data sources, spatial resolution, and hydraulic modelling techniques. Defining FUAs and cities The OECD, in cooperation with the EU, has developed a harmonised definition of functional urban areas (FUAs) to capture the economic and functional reach of cities based on daily commuting patterns (OECD, 2012). FUAs consist of: A city – defined by urban centres in the degree of urbanisation, adapted to the closest local administrative units to define a city. A commuting zone – including all local areas where at least 15% of employed residents work in the city. The delineation process includes: Assigning municipalities surrounded by a single FUA to that FUA. Excluding non-contiguous municipalities. The correspondence table between SAUs and FUAs/cities is available in parquet and csv format. The definition identifies 1 272 FUAs and 1 269 cities in all OECD member countries except Costa Rica and three accession countries. Cite this dataset OECD Regions, cities and local areas database (Coastal flooding - Cities and FUAs), http://oe.cd/geostats Further information OECD Local Data Portal OECD Regions and Cities at a Glance For questions and/or comments, please email CitiesStat@oecd.org