By Patrick Barnham
The Office for National Statistics has released data on changes in Welsh and English families from 2011 to 2021.
Change since 2011 and geography of family types: lone parent; multi-generational; same-sex couple; multi-family households; and children with a second parental address.
Main points
- More families had only non-dependent children in 2021 (17.1%) compared with 2011 (15.8%), while fewer families had dependent children (41.5% compared with 43.0% in 2011). Of all couple families, 41.3% had no children.
- In 2021, a higher proportion of lone parents were aged over 50 years (41.8%) than in 2011 (33.4%) and fewer lone parents were aged under 25 years in 2021 (3.6%) compared to 2011 (7.5%).
- In 2021, over half (52.4%) of children with a second parent or guardian’s address usually lived in a single-family household that contained a female lone parent family, an increase from 44.8% in 2011.
- A higher proportion of households were multi-generational in 2021 (2.1%) than 2011 (1.8%).
The full report can be downloaded here
