Families and Households in the UK 2024

Product Description

Estimates of families (with and without children) and household types, including people living alone in the UK in 2024.

Main points

• There were 28.6 million households in the UK in 2024, 66.9% contained one family (a couple with or without children or a lone parent living with at least one child) and 29.5% contained a single person.
• More people lived alone in 2024 (8.4 million) than in 2014 (7.6 million), and a larger proportion of them were aged 65 years or over (51.1% in 2024, 45.5% in 2014).
• One third (33.7%) of men aged between 20 and 34 years lived with their parent(s) in 2024, compared with less than a quarter (22.1%) of women.
• Married couples (with and without children) made up the largest proportion of families (65.1%), but this decreased from 67.1% in 2014, this is because of more couples living together without getting married.
• Lone parent families were less likely to contain dependent children in 2024 (62.5%) than in 2014 (66.1%) as more lone parent families contain only adult children.
• In 2024, 16.7% of lone parents were lone fathers, an increase from 13.1% in 2014.