One in four Spanish households have just one occupant
Wednesday, May 27, 2015 @ 9:41 AM
ONE in four men aged 35 to 44 live alone and men make up six in 10 of all under-65s who are the sole occupants of their homes, according to Eurostat.
Men who live alone are predominantly single or divorced, whilst female sole occupants tend to be widows – this is true of 58.8% of them.
One in 10 people in Spain live on their own, or one in four households.
The average household was made up of 2.51 people by the end of last year, a fall from the 2.53 average in 2013.
Three in 10 homes are occupied by two people, who account for 5.5 million in total.
Households based around couples are the most common, with 10.3 million families of this type in Spain, and just under 40% of them do not have any children whilst a quarter of them have just one child.
Families of three or more children now only make up 600,000 of Spain's households, or 3.3%, although they have increased in number in the past year.
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