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Households
There are 14.2 (million households in Spain which means an increase of 20% with respect to 1991. Significant modifications have occurred in the structure and size of households.
The trend is towards smaller and smaller households, as a consequence of above all, the decrease in birth rate. It is mainly the single member households that considerably increase, in detriment of more numerous households.
In the last 30 years, the number of members per household has changed from nearly 4 persons to a figure well below 3.
Intercensal variation of
households according
to number of members
1
Evolution of the average number of members per householdComposition and evolution of households
Ever smaller households
More households, less members
Households according to sizeTotal 1 2 3 4 5 6 and more Number of members 100.0 20.3 25.2 21.2 21.5 7.7 4.1 Percentage 14,184,026 2,875,422 3,581,496 3,003,941 3,047,852 1,099,738 575,577 Absolute values (*)
(*) Lodgings are not taken into account : set of persons who usually reside in the same household.
Household 81.8 30.0 23.2 -21.5 -39.4 11.7 1991-2001 censuses(%)
2
3
4
5
6 and more
1981 1991 2001 3.5 3.2 2.9 1970 3.8censuses
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Households
The EU country with least average number of persons by household is Germany with 2.2. Spain and Portugal are the ones with the most, at 2.9.Municipalities with greater percentage of households with 5 or more members
A Coruña Ceuta Melilla Sevilla Pontevedra Sevilla Pontevedra A Coruña Pontevedra Pontevedra Province 30.1 28.5 27.5 26.4 26.0 25.5 25.4 25.2 25.2 24.6 Percentage Santa Comba Ceuta Melilla Arahal Tomiño
Los Palacios y Villafranca Gondomar Rianxo Mos Vilanova de Arousa Municipality Average number
of members per household
Under 2.70 2.70 to 2.79 2.80 to 2.94 More than 2.94
12.4% of the population resident in family households live in a household made up of five or more adults. , and
are the provinces where this situation is most reflected. The household made up of two adults and two minors (10.9%) is more common in , and , and the ones made up of two
adults and a minor (8.3%) in , and .
and have the greatest percentage of
population with households made up of only one adult with one or more minors; although this kind of household only represents 1.7% of the total population.
Among persons who live alone (7.1% of the population) there are more men than women in all age groups from 16 to 34 years old and from 35 to 64 years old; however, among persons over 65 years old, there are three times more women than men living alone.
Ceuta Melilla Pontevedra
Jaén Albacete Córdoba
Castellón Barcelona Valencia Las Palmas Santa Cruz de Tenerife
200,000 400,000 600,000 800,000 1,000,000 From 16 to 34 years
From 35 to 64 years
Of 65 and more years
Single person households by groups of age and sex.
Spain 2.86
Foreigners, non-community citizens: households
with more members
Men Women
Municipalities with more than 10.000 inhabitants.
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Households
Evolution of the percentage over time of single persons from 25 to 29 years old
40
20 80
60
1970 1981 1991 2001
The number of has almost
doubled in the last ten years, since it has increased from 1.6 million in 1991 to close to three million in 2001. From this figure, 450,000 are households with only one person 80 years old or over. Specifically,
single person households
Persons 65 years old and over according to type of cohabitation(%) 65 to 69 70 to 74 75 to 79 80 to 84 85 to 89 90 or more Total Age Groups 0.9 1.3 2.1 3.8 6.7 10.0 161,580 Group dwellings 12.3 17.3 23.3 28.4 29.5 25.7 1,358,683 Family dwellings Persons living alone 29.5 40.3 39.6 31.2 22.2 20.3 2,356,176 With others, all contemporary 57.4 41.1 35.0 36.6 41.6 43.9 3,081,217 With at least one from previous generations 2,090,122 1,846,830 1,440,556 875,349 478,729 226,070 6,957,656 Absolute values Evolution of single person households(%) 1981 1991 2001 10.2 13.3 20.3 1970 7.5
73% of the population 25 years old is still single and lives with a person from a previous generation, normally their parents. That percentage is not below 50% up to 28 years old and at 30 years old, this is still 35%.
Only 20 years ago, this was very different: the percentage of single males at 25 years old has increased from 40% to more than double, 85%; and at 29 years old, from 20% to 56%, nearly tripled.
Living alone
About 450,000over 80 live alone..., and with a tendency
to increase more than 25% of those over 90 years old live alone, in
other words, approximately 60,000 elderly persons. From 85 to 90 years old, the figure increases to 140,000, and to 250,000 for 80 to 84 year olds.
censuses
25 years 26 years 27 years 28 years 29 years39 42% of the households have lived less than 10 years in their current dwelling
Households
Before 1941
Households according to year moved into their dwelling 42.1% 20.9% 18.9% 9.7% 5.9% 2.4% 1941-1960 1961-1970 1971-1980 1981-1990 1991-2001 Until 1960, 8.3% of the current population moved
into their households. In the following twenty years, the population that their current dwelling represents 28.6%; but the largest increase has occurred in the last decade: 42.1% of the popu-lation their dwelling between 1991 and 2001.
More than half of the households that are currently
in the municipalities of ,
, ,
, that belong to the Community of Madrid, were formed between 1996 and 2001.
moved into
moved into
Villanueva de la Cañada Torrelodones Galapagar Boadilla del Monte and las Rozas
Year of arrival at the dwelling
(%)
Households moved into their dwelling between 1996 and 2001
Under 24 years old 24 to 28 29 to 33 Over 33
Municipalities with greatest number of households who moved into their dwelling between 1996 and 2001 (%) Las Palmas Las Palmas Sevilla Madrid Madrid Madrid
Santa Cruz de Tenerife Alicante / Alacant Madrid Madrid Province 73.3 67.5 63.6 61.4 60.8 59.8 59.4 59.0 58.6 58.5 Percentage Pájara La Oliva Bormujos Villanueva de la Cañada Torrelodones Galapagar Adeje Torrevieja Boadilla del Monte Las Rozas de Madrid Municipality
Spain 30
Municipalities with more than 10.000 inhabitants
Households...
recently incorporated
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Households
Availability of vehicle
Madrid Barcelona Navarra Madrid Madrid Huelva Jaén Barcelona Cádiz Cádiz España 94.0 93.9 92.3 91.7 91.3 56.5 54.8 54.8 54.0 53.0 69.7Boadilla del Monte Lliçà d'Amunt
Zizur Mayor/Zizur Nagusia Villanueva de la Cañada Rivas- Vaciamadrid Isla Cristina Jódar Barcelona Barbate Cádiz
Buildings with garage spaces(%) Less than 21 21 to 26 27 to 34 More than 34 Average number of vehicles per Household
Spain 27
27% of the buildings destined m a i n l y f o r d w e l l i n g s w i t h
garages. and with
46% and 44% respectively are those with the highest per-c e n t a g e o f b u i l d i n g s w i t h
garage spaces. , ,
and those with
the smallest, below 15%
Lleida Girona
Ceuta Huelva
Melilla Córdoba
Municipalities according to availability of vehicles in households (%)
Province Municipality Percentage
Municipalities with more than 10.000 inhabitants.
Households,
vehicles...
... and
garages
0.80 to 0.87 0.88 0.94 0.95 0.99 1.00 1.23 to to to(*) Destined mainly for dwellings
Nearly 70 percent of households have at least one vehicle (excluding motorcycles).
The provinces of and appear in
first place, while three out of every four households have a personal vehicle; in last place, with 61%.
The peripheral municipalities of large cities which have a greater quantity of vehicles are
in Barcelona, or in Madrid.
n last place, closely followed by
Illes Balears Girona
Zamora,
Llicà d'Amunt,
Boadilla del Monte, Cádiz
is i Barcelona.
Spain 0.95
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Households
Tenancy regime
The European average exceeds 32%, of housing in rent, Germany, with 53%, and Holland, with 45% are the EU countries with the highest percentage. S p a i n , w i t h 1 1 . 4 % , followed by Greece, are the lowest.
Households according to tenancy regime(%)
Owned: purchased and paid in full 50,7 Owned: by purchase with payments still owing 22,8 Owned: by inheritance or donation 8,6 For rent 11,4 Ceded freely or at a low price 2,6 Another form 3,8 In property Evolution of households(%) 74.9 1981 1991 2001 78.3 82.2 18.8 15.1 11.4 6.4 6.5 6.4
For Rent Remainder
82%
rent 11.4%
of households reside in property housing. The percentage of households that is only
, a figure lower than that of other countries, and which means a substantial reduction over the already low figure of 15% as it has been for 10 years. More than three million homes still owe payments which means 25.6% more than in 1991.
The average surface area of owned households is 95 metres squared, as opposed to 79 for rented housing.
(%)
Intercensal variation of households.
1991-2001 Censuses
29.2 15.4 76.0 -10.0 Households for rent Still owing payments Paid in full Total Households ownedWe do not rent much...,
and ever less
In general, in more demographically dynamic areas there are more rents
Households
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Households for Rent(%)
Under 8 years old 8 to 10 11 to 13 Over 13
The highest percentage of households for rent are in the regions outside the peninsula (in where more, 28%), and and the
lowest ones, below 8%, in and . Among the
provincial capitals, stands out with the highest percentage of housing for rent with 31.7% and the lowest is, with 7.3%.
and are the provinces with the greatest number of owned households purchased and paid in full (over 61%); At the other
extreme, and barely reach
40%.
On the other hand, with 29%, is in first place among the provinces with the highest number of households with not paid in full, followed by
and .
Melilla Cataluña Madrid;
País Vasco Castilla-La Mancha Cádiz
Vitoria-Gasteiz,
Vizcaya, Guipúzcoa Jaén
Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Lugo, Ceuta, Melilla
Madrid Guadalajara Barcelona País Vasco La Rioja Castilla y León Cantabria Castilla-La Mancha Andalucía Región de Murcia Comunidad Valenciana Principado de Asturias Comunidad Foral deNavarra Aragón Extremadura Comunidad de Madrid Cataluña Galicia Illes Balears Canarias Ceuta Melilla
Households who have paid their dwelling in full(%)
Municipalities with highest percentage of owned households not paid in full
Madrid Navarra Sevilla Madrid Salamanca Madrid Valladolid Madrid Madrid Barcelona Province 65.4 63.0 62.4 57.5 57.4 55.3 55.2 53.0 52.1 51.9 Percentage Rivas-Vaciamadrid
Zizur Mayor/Zizur Nagusia Bormujos
Boadilla del Monte Santa Marta de Tormes Valdemoro
Laguna de Duero Villanueva de la Cañada Sant Quirze del Vallès Torrelodones Municipality 61.2 55.0 54.5 53.8 53.8 53.3 53.1 52.7 52.1 51.7 51.0 50.5 50.4 45.8 43.4 42.7 42.2 29.6 32.7 Spain 11,4
Municipalities with more than 10.000 inhabitants.
Average of Spain
50,7
