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Today, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) published an article on Families in England and Wales: Census 2021.
It details changes since 2011 and geography of family types: lone parent; multi-generational; same-sex couple; multi-family households; and children with a second parental address.
The main findings from the analysis presented in this article include:
- 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 2011 (43.0%); of all couple families, 41.3% had no children.
- A higher proportion of lone parents were aged 50 years and over in 2021 (41.8%) than in 2011 (33.4%) and fewer lone parents were aged 24 years and under in 2021 (3.6%), compared with 2011 (7.5%).
- Family reference persons who identified as "Black, Black British, Black Welsh, Caribbean or African: Caribbean" had the highest proportion of lone parents; over half were lone parents in 2021 (51.0%), an increase from 2011 (48.5%).
- 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.
- Half of all children with a second parental address lived within 5.0 kilometres (km) of their second parent or guardian's address and three-quarters lived within 13.2km.
- A higher proportion of households were multi-generational in 2021 (2.1%) than 2011 (1.8%); and household reference persons who identified with "Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh" ethnic groups were more likely to live in multi-generational households, but less likely in 2021 than in 2011.
Today, the ONS also published a Census 2021-based piece focusing on non-dependent children living in families titled “More adults living with their parents”.
You can keep up to date with our Census 2021 release plans on the ONS website.
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