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Article: Number of people living alone set to spiral.(Business)
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- Daily Post (Liverpool, England)
- Article date:
- December 18, 2006
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THE number of people living on their own is set to rise by 53% over the next 20 years, a report claimed yesterday.
Research from Alliance & Leicester Mortgages found that "living loners"
will total 9.9m by 2026, as more and more people around the country opt for a solitary home life.
The figure is up from an estimated 6.6mone-person households recorded in 2003 and represents an increase of around 150,000 a year.
Over the same period, the number of married couple households is set to fall to 8.8m from 9.m, a reduction of 34,000 every year.
As a result of the increase in living loners, the average household size is set to diminish over the next two decades.