Census of England and Wales, 1921 : general report with appendices / [General Register Office].
- General Register Office Northern Ireland
- Date:
- 1927
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Census of England and Wales, 1921 : general report with appendices / [General Register Office]. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![Broadly speaking, the largest dwellings are to be found in the rural and residential counties and the smallest in the industrial areas, particularly those associated with the mining industry. Of the latter, Northumberland and Durham are prominent in respect of their very high proportions of dwellings of the smallest type ; in Northumberland more than half of the total are of three rooms or less and in Durham the proportion of 45-8 per cent. in this group is greater than that of either of the other sizes distinguished. And not only are the small dwellings predominant in these two counties, but they are occupied by a larger number of families on the average than obtains elsewhere, though in the relatively fewer number of large houses the occupation is under average. Counties with the highest average number of rooms per dwelling naturally show an excess in the proportions of the larger sizes, but they are not so regularly constituted in respect of the smaller types ; London, for example, standing fifth on the list, contains an excessive proportion of 1-3 roomed dwellings, due no doubt to the flats and tenement buildings, which are characteristic of the central ‘ portion of this region, while at the same time there is a notable deficiency in the proportion of 4-5 roomed premises. In Surrey and Sussex West, with the sixth and seventh largest overall averages, the 4-5 roomed type is more numerous than all other types combined, but on the other hand, the proportion of 1-3 roomed dwellings is very low indeed. Size of Family in relation to Number of Rooms Occupied.—The essential aspect of housing and overcrowding questions is dealt with in detail in Table 11 of the County Volumes, where the private families of each area are classified according to size, 1.e. the number of persons in the family, and also by the unit of occupation, the number of rooms occupied by each individual family. Similar analyses for England and Wales as a whole and for the aggregates of county boroughs, urban districts and rural districts are given in Table 22 of the General Tables Volume. | It is to be noted that the unit of occupation 1n these tables is the number of rooms occupied by a family whether this number forms the whole or part only of a structu- rally separate dwelling ; 1,732,490, or nearly 20 per cent. of the total of 8,739,197 private families, were living two or more in a dwelling, and in respect of each of these the number of rooms scheduled as the unit of occupation will be less than the total rooms in the dwelling. The analysis for the country as a whole is summarised in the tables which follow :— TABLE XIX.—DIsTRIBUTION OF PRIVATE FAMILIES ACCORDING TO THE NUMBER OF Rooms OCCUPIED. ENGLAND AND WALES. Private Families. Average Average Population Size of Number of Unit Li i 9 in Family Rooms of — Terenas oy Se vie Private (Persons). | per Person. Occupation Number | Decrease P Families (Rooms). tg21. | (—) r9rr- 1g2I. Ig2I. | 1g2I. | IgrtI. Ig2I. | 1gII. | 1921. | grr. I 317,417 62,707 | 3°6]| 3:2 623,869 | 1:97 | I-90 | 0°51 | 0°53 2 917,958 257,486 | 10°5 | 8-3] 2,834,802 | 3-09 | 3°18 | 0°65 | 0°63 3 1,358,681 | 250,808 | 15°5 | 13°9 | 5,330,506 | 3°92 | 4:00 | 0°76 | 0°75 4 2,144,183 162,755 | 24°4 | 25°0 | 9,052,608 | 4°22 | 4°3I | 0°95 | 0°93 5 1,815,058 175,960 | 20°8 | 20:7 | 8,247,536 | 4°54 | 4°73 | I-Io | 1:06 6 1,126,182 36,863 | 12°9 | 13°7 | 5,037,734 | 4°47 | 4°70 | 1°34 | 1°28 7 441,690 | —28,233 | ‘5°I |} 5°9] 1,983,853 | 4°49 | 4°75 | 1°50 | 1-47 8 262,607 | —18,725 | 3:0| 3:5] 1,213,883 | 4°62 | 4°88 | 1-73 | 1°64 9 131,363 | —25,303 | 1°5 | 2:0 628,275 | 4°78 | 5:07 | 1°88 | 1-78 1o and over. 224,058 | —78,258 | 2:7 | 3:8] 1,228,880 | 5-48 | 5:88 | 2:26 ¥ Total ae .. | 8,739,197 | 796,060 |100-0 |100-0 | 36,179,946 | 4-14 | 4°36 | I-IO bs * Information not available.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b32183197_0055.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
