Households according to the number of members

In the book "Households according to the number of members", the Statistical Office of the Republic of Serbia publishes the final results of 2022 Census of Population, Households and Dwellings on the total number of households in the Republic of Serbia, according to the number of members and average size, by regions, areas, municipalities and settlements.

In this book, only data on private households (hereinafter: households) are presented, while the data on collective households and primary homeless people will be the subject of a separate analysis.

There is a total of 2 589 344 households in the Republic of Serbia. The average household has 2.55 members.

Table 1. Households by number of members, by regions

 

	Total	1 member	2 members	3 members	4 members	5 members	6 and more members	Average number of members
Republic of Serbia	2 589 344	773 945	711 946	459 926	375 565	156 050	111 912	2,55
Beogradski region	694 818	232 252	184 158	125 617	101 827	33 233	17 731	2,40
Region Vojvodine	698 452	215 429	198 871	123 327	98 162	39 162	23 501	2,47
Region Šumadije i Zapadne Srbije	671 500	181 716	182 605	117 984	100 115	48 885	40 195	2,70
Region Južne i Istočne Srbije	524 574	144 548	146 312	92 998	75 461	34 770	30 485	2,66
Region Kosovo i Metohija	…	…	…	…	…	…	…	…

 

 Graph 1. Households by number of members (%), by regions

The largest share of one-person households in the total number of households is recorded in Beogradski region, where every third household is the one-person (33.4%), and in Region Vojvodine (31%). In Region Šumadije i Zapadne Srbije and in Region Južne i Istočne Srbije, two-member households are slightly more numerous than one-person households. These two regions also have a higher share of households with six or more members (close to 6%) compared to Beogradski region, where the share of households with six or more members is only 2.6%, and Region Vojvodine, where 3.4% of households has more than five members. Observed by type of settlement, the average household in urban-type settlements has 2.4 members, while households in other settlements have an average of 2.75 members.

 

Graph 2. Households by number of members (%), by type of settlement

Data by municipalities and cities

 

The municipalities with the smallest average household size are: Crna Trava (1.9 members), Vračar and Stari grad (2 members), Gadžin Han, Savski venac and Babušnica (2.1 members), while the largest average household size is in: Preševo (4.5 members), Bujanovac (4.1 members), Tutin (3.5 members), Sjenica and Novi Pazar (3.4 members).

The largest share of one-person  households in the total number of households is present in the municipality of Crna Trava, where almost every second household is one-person  (48.5%), followed by the Belgrade municipalities of Stari grad (45.2%), Vračar (43.5%) and Savski venac (42.4%), and the municipalities of Gadzin Han (38.9%) and Babušnica (38.8%). On the other hand, the largest share of households with five or more members in the total number of households is recorded in: Preševo (47.3%), Bujanovac (38.6%), Tutin (30.5%), Sjenica (27.4%) and the city of Novi Pazar (26.6%).

 

Book 3. Households by number of members 

Table 1. Households by number of members 

Table 2. Average number of household members