Housebuilding completions: by number of bedrooms 1971-1997: Social Trends 31
Housebuilding completions: by number of bedrooms 1971-1997: Social Trends 31
The average usable floor area for all dwellings in England in 1996 was 85 square metres, which was virtually the same as for France (85 square metres) and Germany (86 square metres), but only half that of the USA (152 square metres). An alternative means of assessing dwelling size is by the number of bedrooms. There were changes in the number of bedrooms that dwellings are constructed with in England and Wales during the last 30 or so years of the 20th century. One in 14 houses completed in 1971 had four or more bedrooms; by 1997 this had increased to almost three in ten. At the same time there was a reduction in the proportion of one bedroom homes that were completed. The apparent anomaly of the decrease in the proportion of larger families
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