Press release No. N 073 of 12 November 2020
- There were 17.6 million people living alone in one-person households in 2019
- The number of women from the age of 80 who live alone is four times higher than that of men
- Young and old people lived together in less than one percent of households in 2019
- The number of households consisting of five people and more went down in the past three decades
WIESBADEN – Since the “lockdown light“ has come into force on 2 November 2020, people in Germany are spending even more time in private homes than before. Those living alone are affected most by contact restrictions applying outside of their homes. The Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) reports that almost half of the individuals in one-person households (42%) lived in large cities with 100,000 inhabitants and over in 2019. Nearly one in three people living alone (32%) were residents of small municipalities with fewer than 20,000 inhabitants. One out of four individuals (26%) in one-person households lived in municipalities with 20,000 to 100,000 inhabitants.
