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Households forecasts

Over-proportional rise in one-person households

The number of private households in Austria will continue to rise in future. Based on an annual average of 3.35 million households in 2001 and according to the present extrapolation, by 2006 (the base year of the underlying population forecast) the figure had risen to 3.51 million (+5.0%). In 2010 the figure is anticipated to be 8.1% higher, at 3.62 million. The number of households will have risen to 4.07 million (+21.6%) by 2030, ultimately reaching 4.37 million by 2050 (+30.7%). The number of one-person households, 1.12 million and thus one third (33.6%) of all private households in 2001, will increase roughly four times as much as the number of multi-person households in the long term to reach 1.80 million in 2050, a share of 41.2%. Among multi-person households, two- and three-person households will continue to increase in number in the future. The number of four-person households is stagnating, while that of larger households will diminish. As a result, the average size of households will decrease in the long term.

Fewer families with children in future

The number of families (married or cohabiting couples with or without children and single mothers and fathers with their children) was 2.21 million in 2001 and will rise to 2.39 million (+8.5%) by 2030 and to 2.46 million (+11.6%) by 2050. While the number of (married) couples without children is set to rise by 46% from 0.77 million (2001) to 1.13 million by 2047, the number of families with children and, in parallel, the number of children in families is already decreasing. In 2030 there will be 1.31 million families with children, 9% fewer than in the Population Census year 2001, when there were 1.43 million.

Vienna’s population growth is leading to a strong increase in households

Viewed regionally, differing trends are anticipated. While the number of households and families in Vorarlberg, Tyrol, Lower Austria and Vienna will increase strongly, future increases in households in Upper Austria and Salzburg will be on par with the national average. Burgenland, Styria and Carinthia on the other hand are likely to experience below-average increases in the number of households. In terms of the number of families too, all federal provinces can anticipate an increase in the future, although not in all regions during the overall projection period up to 2050.

Please consult our German website for tables and charts containing further information.

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Results (overview): household projectionHTMLPDFXLS
Results (overview): families (forecasts)HTMLPDFXLS