Alone or together ?
There are about 36 million households in Germany. About 37% of these households are single-person households, meaning that only one person lives in the dwelling. In the big cities, the proportion of people living alone is 50 %. On average, the flats of people living alone are 70 square metres in western Germany and 60 square metres in eastern Germany. In contrast to single-person households, there are few households with children : in West Germany it is 25 %, in East Germany only 13.5 %.
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City or countryside ?
About half of all Germans, i.e. 50 %, live in large cities, 35 % live in smaller towns and 15 % live in the countryside.
Ownership or rent ?
57.4 % of flats in Germany and 65 % of flats in Switzerland are rental flats. "Renting" has a long tradition in Germany, especially in the big cities. Tenants live in a flat for an average of 12 years. This is something special in Europe, because in almost all other European countries the share of rented housing is below 50 %. This means that more than half of the people are owners. In the UK, for example, 70% of residents have bought their flats or houses, in Italy, Greece and Spain it is over 80 %. But in Germany, home ownership does not cost more than in other countries. For a single-family house, for example, one pays on average 269,000 euros in Great Britain, 260,000 euros in the Netherlands, 224,000 euros in West Germany and only 182,000 euros in East Germany.
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