THE UK BY NUMBERS


HOUSEHOLDS THE UK BY NUMBERS


We present an at-a-glance overview of the key issues in Britain today. In this issue our focus is on households and family. All statistics are from the ONS Families and Households 2014 Statistical Bulletin unless otherwise stated


Household size


There were 26.7 million households in the UK in 2014. The number of households has increased by 7% since 2004, similar to the growth in the UK population during this period. Percentage of households by household size 2014


Four or more people 20%


Four or more people 20%


One person 29%


One person 29%


“After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one’s own relations” Oscar Wilde


Three


people 16%


Three people 16%


Two people 35%


Two people 35%


“Home is where you are loved the most and act the worst” Marjorie Pay Hinckley


56% 91% 30%


Households containing two or more families were the fastest growing household type in the decade to 2014, increasing by 56% to 313,000


In 2014 there were 2 million lone parents with dependent children in the UK. Women accounted for 91% of lone parents with dependent children


Cohabiting couple families grew by 30% between 2004 and 2014. This is the fastest growing type of family in the UK


The total number of families in the UK has increased from 17.3 million in 2004 to 18.6 million in 2014 – a rise of 8%. The number of married couple families increased by 266,000 between 2004 and 2014, to 12.5 million in 2014. The increase in opposite sex cohabiting couple families rose from 2.3 million to 3.0 million between 2004 and 2014. And in 2014 there were an estimated 84,000 families consisting of a same sex cohabiting couple and 61,000 consisting of a civil partnered couple; the latter has increased since the introduction of civil partnerships in the UK in December 2005.


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Dependent children


Fifty-eight per cent of lone parents with dependent children have only one child. Only 12% of lone parents have three or more children. Married couples with dependent children have more children on average than other family types, and only 39% have only one dependent child. Families with dependent children by family type and number of dependent children 2014 - percentage


One child


Two children


Three or more children


0 10 20


Opposite sex cohabiting couple family Married couple family


Lone parent family 30 40 50 60


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