2023-07-01 01:45:53
Updated Saturday, 1 July 2023 – 01:45
Single-family homes in this age group already exceed two million, and a woman resides in 70% of them
Census The number of empty homes skyrockets after the INE reveals 400,000 new properties and now reaches 3.8 million
The population and housing census of the National Statistics Institute (INE) shows, in addition to a number of vacant homes that reaches 3.8 million, a sharp increase in single-family homes. In the data, therefore, of people who live alone. And in this increase, the rebound registered among those over 65 years of age is especially striking: the figure, as of January 1, 2021, exceeded 2 million households, which translates an increase of 22% regarding the census that was closed in 2011.
In that portrait of loneliness at home especially women stand out. In the majority of these households, 70.8%, a woman resides, explains the INE in the work that it published yesterday. In absolute terms, there are 1.47 million single-family homes in which a female person over the age of 65 resides. 10 years ago the figure was 1.27 million, that is, the number of women over 65 living alone has increased by 200,000 in the last decade. Men of the same age group who live alone have also risen significantly, although always in lower figures: they are just over 600,000 people, while in 2011 the figure was around 430,000.
Observing the numbers by populations of more than 50,000 inhabitants, it is verified that in cities like Torrevieja, Torremolinos y Soria the proportion of households in which a person over 65 lives alone reaches 30%, while in Benidorm, Len y Salamancao Zamora They are very close to that data. It is a mixture of typical holiday and coastal places, such as the three Mediterranean ones, and Castilian-La Mancha cities with an aging population. On the opposite side are located, exclusively, Madrid towns. Boadilla del Monto, Pozuelo, Rivas, Las Rozas, Fuenlabrada and Coslada are the ones with the lowest proportion of older single-family homes. None of them exceeds 15%.
Beyond people over 65, single-family homes are gaining ground across all age groups and, therefore, in total terms. The slightly more than five million people who live alone son 807.000 mswhich in turn represents an increase of 19%.
Homes where one person lives are still not the most common, but they are gaining ground and are already very close to homes made up of two people. This last group has decreased and has gone from representing 30% of the total to 27%; households in which only one person resides have rebounded from 23% to 27%. The tendency to live in solitude, whether sought or forced, is clear and evident.
This is also visible, for example, in that the average number of members per household fell to 2.54 people in 2021, from 2.58 in 2011, thus continuing the decline observed over the last 50 years, as explained by the INE. Fewer and fewer people live in each house. And those 2.54 people hire, and a lot, with the 3.82 people there were in 1970.
On the other hand, and speaking of the tenure regime in all households in Spain, three out of four families owns his home. The figure is slightly lower than that of ten years ago, when it reached 79%. However, if one goes back to 2001, the drop is more significant: then 82% of households lived in a home that they owned. In parallel, 16% of homes are rented.
This represents a significant upturn compared to that same 2001, and is the second highest figure since the population and housing census was carried out, only behind the 18.8% that the 1981 study showed. Barcelona and Gerona are the capitals with the highest percentage of homes for rent: in both cases it exceeds 30%. The least, Huelva, Jan and Crdoba.
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