2001 Census of Population: Families

Key results

• Of all people living in households in 2001, 84 per cent lived in a family. There were 836,000 families in Wales.
• Of the 1.2 million households in Wales in 2001, 68 per cent included at least one family. Of the households not including a family, almost all (92 per cent) were single adult households.
• The proportion of families headed by a married couple family decreased from 80 per cent in 1991 to 71 per cent in 2001, whilst the proportion of cohabiting couple families doubled from 6 per cent to 12 per cent.
• In 2001, 17 per cent of families were lone-parent families compared to 14 per cent in 1991. In 2001 nearly 9 in 10 of lone-parent families were headed by lone-mothers.
• Of those dependent children living within a family, nearly two thirds lived within a married couple family.
• In 2001, there were 36,500 stepfamilies in Wales, representing 1 in 10 families with dependent children.

Contact

Tel: 029 2080 1341
E-mail: stats.popcensus@wales.gsi.gov.uk