Eight in 10 homes are owner-occupied with no mortgage, and a quarter have just one person in residence
Friday, April 11, 2014 @ 6:20 PM
NEARLY a quarter of Spanish homes are occupied by just one person – a total of 4.4 million, latest census figures show.
And over a third of young people aged 25 to 34, who make up just under 6.4 million of Spain's population, still live with their parents, or have moved back in with them due to financial hardship – in some cases, with husbands, wives or partners and children, too.
The younger the age, the less likely they are to have left home – between the ages of 25 and 29, nearly half – 48.5 per cent – still lived with their parents, compared to 20.5 per cent of the 30 to 34 age-group.
Of those who had moved out of the family nest, the majority live with a partner.
Since the last census, the average number of people living in a residential property in Spain has gone down to 2.53, compared to 2.83 and the total number of households has risen by 133,6000.
The majority of homes have two occupants – couples, either cohabiting or married – who make up three in 10.
But the number of people living alone has gone up by five per cent since 2011, and more of these are women – 53.5 per cent of the total, compared to 46.5 per cent of single-occupancy homes inhabited by men.
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