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In Austria there are more than 1.5 million single-person households.
© WHAT-PHOTOS: HERBERT NEUBAUER
In Austria there are more than 1.5 million single-person households, 2.3 million single-family households and 56,000 multi-family households. However, especially among people over the age of 65, many live completely alone.
One in three people aged 65 and over lives alone in Austria. In 2020 there were 3,988,000 private households, of which 2,346,000 were single-family households and 56,000 were multi-family households, Statistics Austria reported. A total of 1,506,000 people lived alone. “The trend towards one-person households continues. The number has almost doubled since the mid-1980s,” said Statistics Austria CEO Tobias Thomas. In general, more than every sixth person lives alone in a private home.
In addition, 80,000 multi-person non-family households were registered as shared apartments based on the microcensus labor force survey. In relation to the total population in private homes, 79.4 percent of the population lived in the family nucleus association, 17.2 percent alone, and 3.4 percent in other forms of coexistence.
The number of private households increased dramatically
The number of private households increased by 42.4 percent from 1985 to 2020 from 2,801,000 to 3,988,000, but the population in private households only increased by 17.2 percent (1985: 7,481,000; 2020: 8,766,000). The higher number of households is essentially due to the fact that the number of single-person households almost doubled (plus 96 percent). The proportion of people living alone increased in the same period from 10.3 to 17.2 percent, and while a household still had an average of 2.67 people in 1985, it was only 2.20 in 2020.
Parents between the ages of 35 and 54 live with children
Across all age groups, just under four out of five people (6,963,000, 79.4 percent) lived with a partner, as a parent or child in the main family, and 94.7 percent among those up to 24 years of age Most of them (90.9 percent) were still children with one or both parents and only 3.8 percent in a family that they had founded themselves. The period of coexistence as parents with children was mainly concentrated in the age groups of 35 to 54 years.
At an older age, more and more people are living alone: one-third (542,000 or 33.1 percent) of those aged 65 and over lived without other people in the household at the time of the survey, often due to the separation or death of your partner.
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