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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![TABLE XX.—DIstTRIBUTION OF PRIVATE FAMILIES ACCORDING TO THE NUMBER OF PERSONS IN FamILy. ENGLAND AND WALES. rr Private Families. Average Number of Aver-| Rooms per Person. l age Number of | Num- No. of Persons Distribution Rooms ber of | In all in Increase or 5 : In I-9 Family. Number | Decrease | P° Pants cae fege ans Rooms only. 192I. ($=) T9tr= - |Family] Occu- TOK 1g2r. |pation 1g2I. | IOI. rar. | 292F- | L9rT. l 520,856 103,674 | ‘6°0 [°°5*3 | 1,537,414 [2 02 | 2°02 | 2700 |.ayo © 2 1,546,948 263,366) 17°79 '162*| 6,271,208 |ateb2 | 2*or 4) “oom 42405 3 1,823,619 292,207 | 20°8 | 19°3 | 8,025,025 | 4°40 | 1°47 | 1°43 | 1°49 4 1,625,292 185,773 | 18:6 | 18-1 |] 7,639,662 | 4-70 | 1-18 | 1-13 TAT, 5 1,213,464 67,845 | 13°9 | 14°4 | 5,930,385 | 4°89 | 0-98 | 0-93 | 0-96 6 818,448 —4,580 | 9:4] I0-4 | 4,101,994 | 5:01 | 0°84 | 0°79 | 0-81 4 520,074 | —31,143 | 6:0 | 6:9] 2,661,523 | 5-12 | 0-73 | 0-68 | 0-70 8 314,771 | —30,073 | 3°6| 4:3] 1,646,566 | 5-23 | 0°65 | 0-60 | 0°62 9 179,344 |A—21,30384 ~2-Ta 02-5 968,345 | 5°40 | 0:60 | 0°54 | 0°57 ro and over. 170,381 | —29,611 | I-9| 2:6] 1,063,715 | 6-24 | 0:58 | 0:48 | 0°50 Total 4 .. | 8,739,197 796,060 {100-0 |100°0 | 39,785,926 | 4°55 | I-10 | 1-06 | 1:05 1921. 1911. Average size of private family (persons) .. a .. 4:14 4-36 Average number of rooms occupied per family :— (a) In all units of occupation .. a ee .. 4°55 . (0) In units of occupation of 1-9 rooms only .. savas ica ® 4-52 Average numbers of rooms occupied per person :— (a) In all units of occupation .. *; 4 pel 10 3 (6) In units of occupation of 1-9 rooms only .. fos WLU 1-05 * Information not available. From Table XIX it will be seen that the commonest unit of occupation is that consisting of four rooms which forms 24-4 per cent. of the whole ; 20-8 per cent. consist of 5 rooms, 15-5 per cent. of 3 rooms and 12-9 of 6 rooms, so that nearly 74 per cent. of the units of occupation consist of from 3 to 6 rooms, the balance being distributed amongst smaller and larger units, rather more than half going into the former category. As regards the size of families Table XX shows that 20-8 per cent. of the total private families consist of 3 persons, 18-6 per cent. of 4 persons, 17-7 per cent. of 2 persons and 13-9 per cent. of 5 persons, 71 per cent. of the total thus consisting of from 2 to 5 persons each. Persons scheduled as living alone form 6-0 per cent. of the separate families, or 1-5 per cent. of the total private family population. It will be seen from Table XX that as compared with 1911, the increase of 796,060 in the number of private families is compounded of two portions, a decrease in the numbers at each size from 6 upwards aggregating to 116,805 in all, coupled with the much larger increase of 912,865 in respect of families of 5 persons or less. The average size of family has thereby been reduced from 4-36 persons in 1911 to 4-14 persons in 1921, a drop of 5 per cent. The general decline in the size of families between 1911 and 1921 has been consistently observed in almost every section of the country ; it has been foreseen and commented upon in the successive Annual Reports of the Registrar General and may be regarded as a natural consequence of the increase in the marriage rate in association with a heavily reduced birth rate and the increased (allowing for war deaths) death rate.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b32183197_0056.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
