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1921 Census of England and Wales, General Report with Appendices, Table 20 : " Distribution of Private Families according to the Number of Persons in Family. England and Wales".
No. of Persons in Family. | Private Families. | Number of Rooms occupied 1921. | Aver- age Num- ber of Rooms per Family 1921. | Average Number of Rooms per Person. | |||||
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Number 1921. | Increase or Decrease (-) 1911- 1921. | Distribution per cent. | In all Units of Occu- pation 1921. | In 1-9 Rooms only. | |||||
1921. | 1911. | 1921. | 1911. | ||||||
1 | 526,856 | 103,674 | 6.0 | 5.3 | 1,537,414 | 2.92 | 2.92 | 2.86 | 2.78 |
2 | 1,546,948 | 263,366 | 17.7 | 16.2 | 6,211,298 | 4.02 | 2.01 | 1.96 | 2.03 |
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 | 7,639,661 | 4.70 | 1.18 | 1.13 | 1.17 |
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 | 10.4 | 4,101,994 | 5.01 | 0.84 | 0.79 | 0.81 |
7 | 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 | -21,398 | 2.1 | 2.5 | 968,345 | 5.40 | 0.60 | 0.54 | 0.57 |
10 and over. | 170,381 | -29,611 | 1.9 | 2.6 | 1,063,715 | 6.24 | 0.58 | 0.48 | 0.50 |
Total | 8,739,197 | 796,060 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 39,785,926 | 4.55 | 1.10 | 1.06 | 1.05 |