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ONS Statistics on demographic change - Coggle Diagram
ONS Statistics on demographic change
Cohabitation
Cohabiting couples increased from 20.6% in 2011 to 24.3% in 2021, increase in all age groups under 85 years.
Largest increase in 25-29 year olds, from 56.5% in 2011 to 71.6% in 2021.
Same-sex couples
In 2021, 476,000 people were living in a same-sex couple. Same-sex cohabitation has increased by 27.6% since 2011, less than opposite-sex cohabitation.
This may reflect the option of same-sex marriage being available since its legalisation in 2014. The proportion of people in a legal partnership with someone of the same sex has almost doubles from 0.5% in 2011 to 0.9% in 2021.
Non-dependent children in households
In 2021, the total number of non-dependent children was 4.9m, a 14.7% increase from 4.2m in 2011.
Those aged 24 years had the largest percentage point increase. BOOMERANG CHILDREN- increasing cost of living, introduction of HE tuition fees, Covid-19, increasing average age at life milestones like moving out.
In England, local authorities that have seen a percentage decrease in non-dependent children are mainly found in the North of England and Midlands. This may reflect relative availability of affordable property in these areas or that young adults leave these areas for employment or education.
Living alone
In 2021, 7.1m people lived alone in E+W.
The proportion of households where one person lives alone in England was 30.1% in 2021 compared with 30.2% in 2011. In Wales it was 31.9% in 2021 compared with 30.8% in 2011.
In E+W, the number of people aged 16-49 years living alone has decreased from 2.5m to 2.2m. This may be linked to the cost of living and the affordability of living alone.
LAT (living apart together)
There has been no increase in LAT couples but there has been an increase in LAT couples from other countries which may show that couples are living apart because they live in separate countries- globalisation, geographical mobility.
Relationship breakdown
The largest increase in people with second parental address is among children aged 0-17 years, which rose by 58.6% from 391,000 in 2011 to 620,000 in 2021.
Married living couples (+civil partnerships)
Decreased to 75.7% in 2021 from 79.4% in 2011.
Fertility (birth)
Fertility dropped to 1.61 children per woman in 2021 from 2.9 in 1964.