Due to More Money Families Have Decreased in Size Since 1900

The numbers of one baby families are increasing. Photo: Alamy

There are 7.7m families with children in the UK - but what size are they? Are you more likely to be an only child now?

The number of families with three or more children is the subject of an Role for National Statistics release today and information technology gives united states a fascinating glimpse into how the UK has changed - and how we compare.

In 1996 - the earliest year that the data is available for - there were seven.4m families, but they tended to exist bigger. The percentage of families with simply 1 child has gone up - to 47%. Those with iii or more than kids is now 14%, down from 17%

In fact, the Uk nevertheless has a higher percentage of households with iii or more than children than three quarters of the European union - including Espana, Deutschland, Poland and Greece. Is there a link between economic operation and family size? It's an interesting question: the smallest families are in countries which are undergoing crisis at the moment: Greece, Spain, Portugal, for instance. Having said that, Cyprus is above the UK, every bit is Ireland - does religion play a part at that place?

The information also shows that information technology's the poorest places which accept the highest percent of families with three or more children: the figure in Tower Hamlets is 28%, for instance and in Birmingham it is 24%.

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Data summary

Bigger families past local authority

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Local authority proper noun	% of families with three or more than children, 2011
City of London	8.8
Barking and Dagenham	xx.5
Barnet	xix.3
Bexley	16.4
Brent	20.seven
Bromley	xiv.9
Camden	19.4
Croydon	16.4
Ealing	18.eight
Enfield	eighteen.iv
Greenwich	eighteen.eight
Hackney	22.viii
Hammersmith and Fulham	17.8
Haringey	nineteen.iii
Harrow	17.ane
Havering	15.6
Hillingdon	17.3
Hounslow	16.seven
Islington	17.i
Kensington and Chelsea	17.half dozen
Kingston upon Thames	14.iv
Lambeth	17.iii
Lewisham	15.9
Merton	16.one
Newham	24.vii
Redbridge	20.2
Richmond upon Thames	14.iii
Southwark	17.five
Sutton	14.iii
Belfry Hamlets	28.4
Waltham Wood	19.5
Wandsworth	17.iii
Westminster	19.v
Bolton	17.5
Bury	xvi.7
Manchester	twenty.viii
Oldham	xx.viii
Rochdale	19.i
Salford	xvi.7
Stockport	14.1
Tameside	fourteen.7
Trafford	sixteen
Wigan	12.5
Knowsley	xiv.8
Liverpool	fourteen.iv
St. Helens	xiii.5
Sefton	14.8
Wirral	fifteen.2
Barnsley	12.9
Doncaster	fifteen.5
Rotherham	15
Sheffield	xvi.8
Gateshead	12.8
Newcastle upon Tyne	16.eight
Due north Tyneside	11.six
South Tyneside	12.one
Sunderland	12.3
Birmingham	24.ane
Coventry	17.iv
Dudley	15.9
Sandwell	18.nine
Solihull	xiv.9
Walsall	20
Wolverhampton	16.7
Bradford	24
Calderdale	15.9
Kirklees	eighteen
Leeds	15.7
Wakefield	13.5
Hartlepool	14.5
Middlesbrough	18.3
Redcar and Cleveland	13.2
Stockton-on-Tees	14.5
Darlington	14.7
Canton Durham	12.3
Northumberland	xiii.5
Cheshire Due east	13.iv
Halton	14.seven
Warrington	thirteen
Cheshire West and Chester	13.8
Blackburn with Darwen	23.9
Blackpool	15
Kingston upon Hull, City of	14.9
E Riding of Yorkshire	xiii
North East Lincolnshire	15.9
Due north Lincolnshire	15.viii
York	xiii.2
Derby	17.viii
Leicester	21.2
Rutland	15.iii
Nottingham	19.1
Herefordshire, County of	xv.2
Telford and Wrekin	sixteen.half-dozen
Shropshire	15.4
Stoke-on-Trent	16.half dozen
Bathroom and North East Somerset	15.3
Bristol, City of	17.3
North Somerset	14.viii
South Gloucestershire	14
Cornwall	15.iii
Isles of Scilly	9.seven
Plymouth	fifteen.3
Torbay	15.three
Bournemouth	xiii.half dozen
Poole	14.6
Swindon	14.6
Wiltshire	15.six
Peterborough	18.i
Luton	23.iii
Bedford	sixteen.6
Primal Bedfordshire	14
Southend-on-Ocean	15.9
Thurrock	sixteen.4
Medway	sixteen.2
Bracknell Forest	13.four
Due west Berkshire	xiv.9
Reading	sixteen.1
Slough	21
Windsor and Maidenhead	15.seven
Wokingham	14.6
Milton Keynes	17.3
Brighton and Hove	13.1
Portsmouth	17
Southampton	17.4
Isle of Wight	15.4
Aylesbury Vale	16.4
Chiltern	17
Due south Bucks	16.three
Wycombe	18.2
Cambridge	xv.8
Due east Cambridgeshire	14.half dozen
Fenland	fifteen.iii
Huntingdonshire	xv
S Cambridgeshire	fifteen.7
Allerdale	13.6
Barrow-in-Furness	13.i
Carlisle	13.2
Copeland	13.3
Eden	13.9
South Lakeland	13.1
Amber Valley	13.7
Bolsover	13.7
Chesterfield	13.7
Derbyshire Dales	15.7
Erewash	12.v
High Acme	14.five
North East Derbyshire	12.4
South Derbyshire	14.5
East Devon	15.half-dozen
Exeter	14.3
Mid Devon	xvi.7
North Devon	xvi.4
South Hams	14.six
Teignbridge	fourteen.half-dozen
Torridge	15.8
West Devon	16.7
Christchurch	fifteen.ane
E Dorset	14.5
N Dorset	16.6
Purbeck	15.vii
Westward Dorset	15.7
Weymouth and Portland	15.five
Eastbourne	15.four
Hastings	xvi.7
Lewes	14.8
Rother	17.1
Wealden	16
Basildon	15.8
Braintree	xv.three
Brentwood	xiv.i
Castle Point	14.4
Chelmsford	14.9
Colchester	fourteen.6
Epping Woods	xiii.8
Harlow	fifteen.1
Maldon	14.v
Rochford	14.7
Tendring	16.ix
Uttlesford	xvi.9
Cheltenham	14.9
Cotswold	15.8
Forest of Dean	15.half-dozen
Gloucester	15.ix
Stroud	15.8
Tewkesbury	fourteen.4
Basingstoke and Deane	15
East Hampshire	15.9
Eastleigh	13.3
Fareham	thirteen.two
Gosport	16.2
Hart	14.7
Havant	16.8
New Forest	14.3
Rushmoor	14.3
Test Valley	14.9
Winchester	xvi.six
Broxbourne	fourteen.six
Dacorum	15.ii
East Hertfordshire	14.seven
Hertsmere	15.four
North Hertfordshire	fourteen.8
St Albans	16.8
Stevenage	15.2
Iii Rivers	15
Watford	xvi.iii
Welwyn Hatfield	15.2
Ashford	17.one
Canterbury	xvi.7
Dartford	14.7
Dover	17.4
Gravesham	17.i
Maidstone	14.ii
Sevenoaks	sixteen.5
Shepway	17.iii
Swale	xvi.eight
Thanet	16.nine
Tonbridge and Malling	sixteen
Tunbridge Wells	nineteen.1
Burnley	17.three
Chorley	12.9
Fylde	13.6
Hyndburn	17.ix
Lancaster	14.seven
Pendle	xx.7
Preston	xviii.3
Ribble Valley	fifteen.1
Rossendale	15.9
South Ribble	13.1
West Lancashire	14.8
Wyre	xiv.iv
Blaby	thirteen.5
Charnwood	14.5
Harborough	fifteen.3
Hinckley and Bosworth	13.three
Melton	fourteen
N West Leicestershire	14.nine
Oadby and Wigston	xvi.two
Boston	xiii.two
East Lindsey	15.four
Lincoln	fourteen.2
North Kesteven	13.half-dozen
South Holland	14.vii
Southward Kesteven	14.5
West Lindsey	15.ane
Breckland	15.5
Broadland	13.two
Nifty Yarmouth	xv.9
Male monarch's Lynn and W Norfolk	16.1
N Norfolk	fourteen.5
Norwich	fifteen.iii
Due south Norfolk	15.1
Corby	xv.2
Daventry	16
East Northamptonshire	15.eight
Kettering	15.1
Northampton	16.3
South Northamptonshire	14.ane
Wellingborough	15.7
Craven	14.half dozen
Hambleton	xiii.half-dozen
Harrogate	13.6
Richmondshire	14.8
Ryedale	16.1
Scarborough	15.3
Selby	13.5
Ashfield	14.five
Bassetlaw	14.3
Broxtowe	13.three
Gedling	13.vii
Mansfield	xiii.2
Newark and Sherwood	fifteen.ii
Rushcliffe	14
Cherwell	15.4
Oxford	18.one
Southward Oxfordshire	15.5
Vale of White Horse	xiv.8
West Oxfordshire	14.iv
Mendip	16.6
Sedgemoor	sixteen.1
S Somerset	16.1
Taunton Deane	14.6
West Somerset	18.1
Cannock Chase	13.3
Eastward Staffordshire	sixteen.4
Lichfield	xiv.4
Newcastle-under-Lyme	13.vii
South Staffordshire	12.half-dozen
Stafford	13.6
Staffordshire Moorlands	xiii
Tamworth	14.8
Babergh	16.iv
Woods Heath	14.4
Ipswich	16
Mid Suffolk	xvi.2
St Edmundsbury	15.nine
Suffolk Coastal	16.v
Waveney	sixteen.5
Elmbridge	15.1
Epsom and Ewell	14.ane
Guildford	fifteen.two
Mole Valley	xv.vii
Reigate and Banstead	15
Runnymede	thirteen.8
Spelthorne	13.2
Surrey Heath	xiv.4
Tandridge	15.five
Waverley	16.8
Woking	16.1
North Warwickshire	fourteen.1
Nuneaton and Bedworth	14.6
Rugby	15.2
Stratford-on-Avon	13.8
Warwick	thirteen.3
Adur	12.5
Arun	13.seven
Chichester	xv.iv
Crawley	16.iii
Horsham	fourteen.2
Mid Sussex	14.viii
Worthing	14.3
Bromsgrove	12.vi
Malvern Hills	15.three
Redditch	fifteen.iv
Worcester	xiv.7
Wychavon	13.1
Wyre Forest	13.3
Island of Anglesey	16.4
Gwynedd	nineteen.v
Conwy	xvi.2
Denbighshire	xvi.viii
Flintshire	15.2
Wrexham	14.7
Powys	17.1
Ceredigion	xviii.2
Pembrokeshire	17.ane
Carmarthenshire	15.4
Swansea	14.4
Neath Port Talbot	12.nine
Bridgend	13.v
The Vale of Glamorgan	15
Rhondda Cynon Taf	xiii.half-dozen
Merthyr Tydfil	13
Caerphilly	xiv.six
Blaenau Gwent	12.5
Torfaen	14
Monmouthshire	15.6
Newport	xvi.5
Cardiff	17.3

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