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Families and households

Released on: 17 April 2026 | Dataset

Families and children in the UK by family type including married couples, cohabiting couples and lone parents. Also shows household size and people living alone.

Families and Households

Released on: 18 May 2023 | Dataset

Families and children in the UK by family type including married couples, cohabiting couples and lone parents. Also shows household size and people living alone.

People's living arrangements in England and Wales: Census 2021

Released on: 9 February 2023 | Article

This article provides an overview of people’s living arrangements. It includes analysis on: their legal partnership status, non-dependent children, people living alone, people with second addresses, and whether people had moved in the year prior to census.

Measuring National Well-being: Insights into Loneliness, Older People and Well-being, 2015

Released on: 1 October 2015 | Article

This article focuses on older people's well-being, loneliness and some of the risk factors associated with loneliness such as living alone, housing tenure, marital status, ill health and support networks. The ONS Measuring National Well-being programme aims to produce accepted and trusted measures of the well-being of the nation - how the UK as a whole is doing.