Housing Needs Assessment 2006 - Westminster City Council

14. Older person households14. Older person households14.1 IntroductionData was collected in the survey with regard to the characteristics of households with older persons.This chapter looks at the general characteristics of older person households and details someadditional survey findings about such households.Older people are defined as those over the state pension eligibility age (currently 65 for men, 60 forwomen). For the purpose of this chapter, households have been divided into three categories:• Households without older persons• Households with both older and non-older persons• Households with only older persons14.2 The older person populationJust below 18% of all households in the City of Westminster contain only older persons and afurther 5.0% contain both older and non-older persons. The table below shows the number andpercentage of households in each group.CategoriesTable 14.1 Older person householdsNumber ofhouseholds% of allhouseholdsHouseholds without older persons 86,957 77.4%Households with both older and non-older persons 5,587 5.0%Households with older persons only 19,852 17.7%TOTAL 112,395 100.0%Source: City of Westminster Housing Needs Survey 200614.3 Characteristics of older person householdsThe number of occupants in older person households is shown in the table below. The data suggeststhat all households containing older persons only are comprised of one or two persons only. Justunder a third of all single person households are older person households.PAGE 129