Families and Households, 2014

28 Jan 2015 02:59 PM

Key findings

• In 2014 there were 18.6 million families in the UK. Of these, 12.5 million were married couple families. This is the most common family type in the UK.
• Cohabiting couple families grew by 29.7% between 2004 and 2014. This is the fastest growing type of family in the UK.
• In 2014 there were 2.0 million lone parents with dependent children in the UK. Women accounted for 91% of lone parents with dependent children.
• There were 26.7 million households in the UK in 2014. 28% of these contained only one person.
• Households containing two or more families were the fastest growing household type in the decade to 2014, increasing by 56% to 313,000 households.

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