Asuinalueelta

Asuinalueelta is the ablative form of the Finnish noun asuinalue, meaning residential area or neighborhood. It denotes origin or source, indicating that something comes from or originates in that area. The form is common in formal and descriptive language, such as statistics, urban planning, reporting, and research, where it is necessary to specify where information, objects, or events originate.

Grammatically, asuinalueelta is built from the compound asuinalue and the ablative suffix -elta, which signals movement away from or source from a place. It contrasts with asuinalueella, meaning in the residential area, and with asuinalueelle, meaning to the residential area. This distinction helps clarify whether something is located in, originates from, or moves out of a given area. A frequently used variant is asuinalueelta peräisin oleva/a, meaning originating from the residential area.

Usage examples include: asuinalueelta kerätty aineisto osoittaa… (data collected from the residential area shows…), löytiin esine asuinalueelta (an item was found from the residential area), and kunnan tilastot pohjautuvat asuinalueelta peräisin olevalle tiedolle (the municipality’s statistics are based on data originating from the residential area). In practice, the phrase appears in reports, surveys, crime and accident summaries, and geographical descriptions.

See also: asuinalue, kaupunginosa, naapurusto. Asuinalueelta functions as a precise source reference in Finnish, primarily in objective or analytical writing, rather than everyday casual speech.