This publication contains characteristics of agricultural holdings according to various criteria and information concerning land use in agricultural holdings, sown area, livestock population, tractors, agricultural machinery and equipment, fertilization and plant protection, the sources of income in holdings with a holder of an agricultural holding, labour force and labour input in agricultural holdings. There is also a classification of agricultural holdings according to criteria used in Eurostat (the so-called typology of agricultural holdings), which enriches the presented characteristics and allows for the comparison of Polish agricultural holdings with the ones in other European Union member states.