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New Series Regional H. 12

Number of Families per House

This is some material which was collected for the Board of Trade by the Wartime Social Survey in the course of other inquiries

Interviewing: 1st to 13th March, 1943

A sample of 2,485 housewives were interviewed.

85.9% of the sample lived in houses and 14.1% in flats.

The number of families per house and per flat were as follows:-

	Houses	Flats
	%	%
1 family	90.5	96.8
2 families	8.3	3.2
3 or more families	1.2	-
Sample	2123	340

The breakdown by region shows results for houses only. The proportion of households in flats in the different regions is shown below.

No. of families	Scotland	North of England	Midlands	S. Wales	South, S.W.& E. Anglia	London	Total
	%	%	%	%	%	%	%
1 family	94.7	97.2	94.2	75.9	88.9	77.1	90.5
2 families	5.3	2.5	5.1	23.2	9.0	20.4	8.3
3 or more families	-	.3	.7	.9	2.1	2.5	1.2
Sample(houses)	133	610	415	112	578	275	2123
% flats	47.4	12.1	.7	1.7	1.4	32.1	14.1
Whole sample	253	694	422	114	588	414	2485

London is the only region showing any considerable difference from the previous results. The different boroughs included would account for this.

Breakdown by income group shows that in Class A 96.3 + or - 3-6% of families had a house to themselves. Otherwise there are no significant differences.

Breakdown by number in family is as follows:-

Number of persons in family

No. of families per house	One	Two	Three	Four	Five & more	Total
	%	%	%	%	%	%
1 family	78.8 ± 7.1	87.2	92.4	94.6	92.3	90.5
2 families	14.4	11.1	6.5	5.4	7.7	8.3
3 or more families	6.8	1.7	1.1	-	-	1.2
Sample(houses)	132	586	566	424	414

Towns included

Scotland

Glasgow

Prestwick

Carlisle

Dumbarton

Helensburgh

North of England

Newcastle

Gateshead

Birtley

Sheffield

Workshop

Elkington

Leeds

Manchester

Hyde

Warrington

Liverpool

Birkenhead

Preston

Chorley

Wigan

Midlands

Birmingham

West Bromwich

Wolverhampton

Cannock

Brierley Hill

Nottingham

Ripley

Leicester

Melton Mowbray

S. Wales

Cardiff

Caerphilly

Pontypridd

South, S.W. & E. Anglia

Aylesbury

Wendover

Basingstoke

Sevenoaks

Edenbridge

Bristol

Exeter

Ottery St. Mary

Ipswich

Felixstowe

Peterborough

Cundle

London

Wandsworth

Kensington

Fulham

Poplar

Barking

Paddington

Harrow

Acton

Holborn

Rural Areas

In South, South West, South East, East Anglia, North and East Midlands.

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