Estimates of families (with and without children), people living alone and people in shared accommodation, broken down by size and type of household.
Main points- In 2023, there were 19.5 million families in the UK, an increase of just over 1.1 million families (6%) since 2013.
- Married or civil-partnered couple families accounted for the majority (66%) of families in 2023, while cohabiting couple families accounted for 18% and lone-parent families accounted for the remaining 16%.
- Lone fathers accounted for 15% (477,000) of the 3.2 million lone-parent families in 2023; lone-father families were more likely to include adult children only (52%) than lone-mother families (34%).
- There were 28.4 million households in the UK in 2023, an increase of 6% (1.7 million) since 2013; most (two in three) households included one family, either a couple family with or without children (56%) or a lone-parent family (11%).
- There were 8.4 million people living alone in the UK in 2023; this was 30% of all households and 13% of all people living in households.
- One-third (33%) of young men aged 20 to 34 years were living at home with their parent(s) in the UK in 2023, compared with less than a quarter (22%) of young women.