The bar chart below shows the perportions of English men and women of different ages who were living alone in 2011, and the pie chart compares the numbers of bedrooms in these one-person households.

The two charts give information about the proportions of English

men

and

women

living without a partner, categorized by age brackets and the number of

bedrooms

owned by single households in 2011.

Overall

,

it is clear that

the percentages of single-occupant males and females of all groups were approximately equivalent, among which the trend was almost as follows, the older

women

were the more they lived by themselves; the younger

men

were the more they were single, and most of those families possessed less than 3

bedrooms

. When it comes to the proportions of single households, the 50-64 age group was nearly 50% to 50%,

although

the figure for

women

slightly outstripped that of

men

. Single

women

aged between 65-75, 75-84 and 85 and above accounted for 62%, 72% and 75%, respectively.

By contrast

, around 65% of

men

were single, exceeding their single counterparts aged between 25-34 and 16-24 years old, at 62% and 53% respectively. With regard to the portions of the quantities of

bedrooms

possessed by one-person families, one bedroom made up for the biggest share of 35.4%, which was followed by those who owned two

bedrooms

and three

bedrooms

, at 29.8% and 28.0% respectively,

whereas

there were few single-person families having four

bedrooms

or five and more

bedrooms

, with merely 5.3% and 1.4%.