Summary:

Presented article analyses the rate of development of selected technical in-frastructure elements i.e. water supply lines, sewage disposal systems and gas grids located in rural areas in Poland in the years 2000-2009.
In order to ensure the comparativeness of obtained results concerning the analyzed elements of technical infrastructure, absolute data were presented as an indicator expressing the number of water supply lines per 100 houses situated in the analyzed area.
The analysis conducted including such indicators as absolute increments, chain indices or average rate of changes, revealed increasing tendency for all an-alyzed elements of technical infrastructure. The most noticeable development characterized water supply lines. Development of the other elements was also noticeable, however at a much slower rate.
Increasingly faster development of rural areas owing to new functions which they assume, determines the direction of changes both in the infrastructure and other areas of life in the country.