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Figure 4
More one-person households, fewer large households
Description
This chart shows the proportion that one-person and five persons or more households represent from 1941 to 2006. Five persons or more households represented 38.2% of all Canadian households in 1941. This proportion had decreased to 32.7% in 1951 and then to 30.9% in 1966, to 26.4% in 1971, to 19.7% in 1976, to 14.6% in 1981, to 12.0% in 1986, to 10.6% in 1991, to 10.3% in 1996, to 9.5% in 2001 and to 8.7% in 2006. At the other end, the proportion of one-person households has increased from 1941 to 2006. In 1941, these households represented 6.0% of all Canadian households, in 1966, 11.4%, in 1981, 20.3%, in 1996, 24.2% and in 2006, 26.8%.
Note: Comparable historical data are not available for census years prior to 1941.
Sources: Statistics Canada, censuses of population, 1941 to 2006.
