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Housing expenditures as a percentage of disposable income, residual income and number of households by tenure and type of household, 2021

  Housing expenditures as a percentage of disposable income, Median value Median value, Margin of error ± Residual income , Mean value SEK 000s Median value, Margin of error ± Number of households Number of households, Margin of error ±
Rental            
Single without children 32.2 2.2 145.1 13.5 1 038 960 82 050
Women -64 yrs 29.6 3.1 156.9 23.6 292 080 52 400
Men -64 yrs 25.0 3.8 198.8 26.2 418 780 62 560
Women 65- yrs 39.4 3.4 103.5 7.8 221 990 44 730
Men 65- yrs 34.3 6.6 116.9 28.2 106 110 31 580
Cohabiting without children 21.7 2.1 345.8 36.8 284 320 34 040
-64 yrs 16.9 2.4 446.8 51.8 169 030 29 520
65- yrs 27.9 2.8 244.6 34.5 115 280 24 860
Single with children 34.2 5.2 191.3 36.4 111 260 28 440
Cohabiting with children 21.3 2.0 383.5 46.3 229 640 30 460
With 1 child 18.5 3.8 429.8 93.9 74 570 22 070
With 2 children 21.3 2.8 337.9 69.9 95 950 26 810
With 3+ children 21.1 3.7 374.9 79.8 59 120 19 640
Other households 20.9 2.9 394.4 53.0 157 790 24 660
All households 27.1 1.3 205.1 13.8 1 821 960 80 570
             
Owned - leasehold            
Single without children 22.9 1.9 202.0 26.4 484 100 50 480
Women -64 yrs 24.8 3.0 216.5 40.6 140 740 34 890
Men -64 yrs 19.0 2.7 279.8 43.4 130 490 37 360
Women 65- yrs 26.6 4.1 135.0 24.0 154 800 33 620
Men 65- yrs .. .. .. .. .. ..
Cohabiting without children 15.1 1.3 446.7 50.7 255 620 26 370
-64 yrs 15.2 1.8 524.5 55.9 136 220 24 900
65- yrs 15.1 2.0 340.7 43.3 119 400 19 900
Single with children 21.1 4.3 318.0 70.8 43 670 15 070
Cohabiting with children 17.6 1.7 522.7 58.0 157 550 22 290
With 1 child 18.2 3.2 403.3 77.1 74 860 20 450
With 2 children 16.5 2.3 636.3 77.4 63 280 15 010
With 3+ children .. .. .. .. .. ..
Other households 14.8 3.0 542.9 158.4 71 280 19 790
All households 18.8 1.0 306.1 23.4 1 012 220 50 260
             
Owned - freehold            
Single without children 19.4 2.1 211.3 31.3 317 490 47 810
Women -64 yrs .. .. .. .. .. ..
Men -64 yrs .. .. .. .. .. ..
Women 65- yrs 21.0 5.3 161.4 31.1 111 190 30 770
Men 65- yrs 16.4 5.4 230.2 68.8 86 660 27 300
Cohabiting without children 14.0 1.0 452.7 26.7 674 190 36 510
-64 yrs 14.5 1.5 520.6 35.0 300 960 34 810
65- yrs 13.6 1.3 376.7 32.4 373 230 33 680
Single with children 23.2 6.7 321.9 75.3 52 200 19 200
Cohabiting with children 16.9 1.3 606.5 33.9 489 890 32 140
With 1 child 15.0 2.6 620.5 73.0 99 660 23 950
With 2 children 17.4 1.7 584.3 43.7 281 430 33 270
With 3+ children 17.8 3.7 611.4 82.4 108 800 22 320
Other households 12.0 1.6 675.5 95.9 186 910 25 890
All households 16.2 0.7 461.7 21.0 1 720 690 53 380
             
All types of tenure            
Single without children 26.2 1.5 169.5 11.8 1 840 550 86 390
Women -64 yrs 27.2 2.3 182.2 21.1 469 290 55 850
Men -64 yrs 21.9 2.0 223.5 23.3 632 430 67 050
Women 65- yrs 33.3 2.9 119.7 7.8 487 980 42 300
Men 65- yrs 23.7 3.7 149.9 23.6 250 850 36 870
Cohabiting without children 15.6 0.6 421.4 19.5 1 214 130 46 510
-64 yrs 15.3 1.0 505.9 22.7 606 210 47 040
65- yrs 16.2 1.1 336.8 20.2 607 910 38 520
Single with children 27.1 2.9 214.2 27.5 207 130 34 330
Cohabiting with children 17.9 0.9 525.1 23.0 877 080 39 790
With 1 child 17.2 1.4 512.1 50.4 249 090 37 810
With 2 children 17.9 1.5 530.2 35.9 440 650 43 030
With 3+ children 18.7 2.3 525.1 53.5 187 330 29 130
Other households 16.1 1.7 510.2 54.7 415 980 36 520
All households 20.5 0.6 307.3 10.7 4 554 870 72 520

Definitions and explanations

The survey has been redesigned and conducted with a smaller sample size in 2020. The smaller sample size increases the margin of error. New households are interviewed every week during the reference year with the new design. The housing expenditures refer to a period of 12 months from the time of the interview. Previous surveys have been conducted the year after the reference year with retrospective questions about the households expenditures the reference year. These changes mean  that comparisons between years must be made with caution as differences between the years are not necessarily due to actual changes. 

The statistics do not include households living in institutions, households in own rental property and households engaged in business activities, such as farmers, who can not distinguish their living expenses from the business activities. The statistics do not include households in second-hand housing, student housing, senior housing, households that rented a furnished dwelling and households where there were a lodger. 

Owner-occupied dwellings refer to detached single family houses, semi-detached houses, terraced houses or link-attached houses that the household owns.

Owned - leasehold dwellings: A dwelling situated in a one- or two-dwelling house or multi-dwelling building that is owned by an owners´ association, in which one is a member.

Rented dwellings refers to a rented dwelling where the tenant has a first-hand contract, both in one- or two-dwelling houses and multi-dwelling buildings.

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Source
SCB

Last updated
2022-11-23

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