Families and Households in the UK 2023

Product Description

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.