Households & families
More men than women aged 20 to 34 live in their parents home
Adults aged 20 to 34 living with their parents: by sex, UK
• There were 25.0 million households in Great Britain in Q2 2008, a 4 per cent increase on Q2 2001 when there were 23.9 million. (Table 2.1)
• Around 10 million dependent children in the UK lived with two parents in the second quarter of 2008, the most common family arrangement. Of these, the majority (8.3 million) lived with married parents. (Table 2.4)
• In the second quarter of 2008, 1.8 million men in the UK aged 20 to 34 lived with their parents compared with 1.1 million women in the same age group. (Table 2.8)
• There were around 237,000 marriages in England and Wales in 2006, the lowest number recorded since 1895. (Figure 2.10) Latest information on marriages
• The majority of people who married in the UK in 2006 did so for the first time: around 71 per cent of men and 72 per cent of women. (Table 2.11) Latest information on marriages
• The average age for women giving birth in England and Wales in 2007 was 29.3 years, compared with 28.3 years in 1997 and 26.6 years in 1971. (Figure 2.18)
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