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Release: Families and Households, 2011

Released: 19 January 2012
This product is designated as National Statistics All editions of this release

Contact

Karen Gask

Demographic Analysis Unit

families@ons.gsi.gov.uk

Telephone: +44 (0)1329 444022

Categories: People and Places, Housing and Households, Households, People, Population, Families, Families, Children and Young People, Families with Children, Family Composition

Frequency of release: Annually

Language: English

Geographical coverage: UK

Geographical breakdown: UK

Survey name(s): Labour Force Survey

  • In 2011 there were 17.9 million families in the UK. Of these 12.0 million consisted of a married couple with or without children
  • The number of opposite sex cohabiting couple families increased significantly, from 2.1 million in 2001 to 2.9 million in 2011. The number of dependent children living in opposite sex cohabiting couple families increased significantly, from 1.3 million to 1.8 million over the same period
  • In 2011, 38 per cent of cohabiting couple families had dependent children, the same percentage as married couple families
  • There were 2.0 million lone parents with dependent children in the UK in 2011, a figure which has grown steadily but significantly from 1.7 million in 2001

  • There were 26.3 million households in the UK in 2011. Of these 29 per cent consisted of only one person and almost 20 per cent consisted of four or more people

In this release

The Summary Quality Report for families and households provides information about the methods used to produce these statistics and data quality.

Frequently asked questions about families and households statistics are available.

This release presents recent estimates of the number of families by type, people in families by family type and children in families by type. Types of family include married couple families, cohabiting couple families and lone parent families. Tables on household size, household types and people in different household types are also provided. These include estimates of people living alone and multi-family households.

These National Statistics are produced to high professional standards and released according to the arrangements approved by the UK Statistics Authority.

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