household size
Residents per dwelling
Household size is the number of people living together in a single dwelling unit.
Census surveys, housing policies, and utility companies use household size to calculate averages and set thresholds: Average household size has declined as more people live alone.
The term appears frequently in demographic research and housing applications.
- family unitRelatives cohabiting together
- age distributionPopulation sorted by years
- cost of livingPrice of basic necessities
- population densityInhabitants per unit area
- fertility rateAverage offspring per person
birth rate · marital status · caregiving roles · headcount · housing subsidies · communal living · housing density · poverty rate · welfare programs · census data · gender ratio · housing affordability · tax incentives · children · spare bedroom · migration patterns · mortality rate · nuclear
- demographicspopulation density, population growth, age distribution, population, gender ratio
- householdsnuclear family, residents, married couple, occupants, roommates
- Canadian demographicspopulation, immigrants, First Nations, Inuit, Metis
- census datapopulation census, national census, census forms, census form, census report
- civic datacensus figures, demographics, population, crime rates, crime statistics
- Hawaii demographicsNative Hawaiians, Pacific Islanders, population density, population growth, ethnic diversity
household sizesquare footage
Interior area measurement
floor area · living space · lot size · home value · housing cost