You’d be surprised how many people know your building code

A study by the start-up Kivala reveals that sharing access codes to buildings is commonplace. Delivery, appointment… the number of people likely to access the common areas of your building is often much higher than you imagine…

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8:30 p.m. The phone vibrates. Your evening meal has arrived in front of your building. A dilemma then arises: go down and collect your order or give the code to the delivery person? If you opt for the second option, you are far from alone. According to a study by Kivala, a French start-up which offers a connected solution for managing access to buildings offering personalized codes, many people choose to communicate the access code. According to the company’s estimate, on average, between 2,000 and 3,000 people per year have access to the common areas of your building.

This impressive figure can be explained in particular by the boom in grocery or home meal deliveries since the Covid era. According to a Statista study from 2022, 60% of French Internet users indicate that they have had their groceries delivered to their home and 42% have already ordered meals via dedicated platforms such as Uber Eats, which alone has captured half the market fast delivery in just a few years.

A feeling of insecurity for 7 out of 10 French people

The Kivala study estimated that on average “an apartment registers three visitors per week», whether it involves the delivery of groceries or meals, the passage of parcel delivery people, workers or even medical personnel, such as nurses, etc. Therefore, for a building comprising 20 apartments, this represents more than 3,000 external visitors each year likely to know your access code.

According to the study, carried out among 1,103 people representative of the French national population aged 18 and over, living in an apartment or building, 69% of French people surveyed do not feel protected by the access code of their building. An even higher feeling of insecurity among women (74%), a majority of whom express fear when a stranger rings their doorbell. Enough to fuel market growth safety devices against intrusions into buildings and homes, which is in full swing.