Valladolid (EFE) person in 2011, according to data published this Friday by the National Institute of Statistics (INE).
The number of homes in the Community has also decreased, which in 2011 were 1,037,966, 1.18 percent more, and a decade ago single-family homes accounted for 26.2 percent of the total.
Of those 341,878 households in which a single person lives, 9,719 are located in municipalities with less than one hundred neighbors, with another 48,507 in towns of up to five hundred, according to data published this Friday by the National Institute of Statistics.
Households with only one person are the most frequent in Castilla y León
The structure of the household with only one person is already the most frequent in Castilla y León, where in another 292,203 households two people live, with 201,347 with three, 141,616 with four and 48,691 with five or more.
There are 107,035 women over the age of 65 living alone
Of those 341,878 households with only one person in Castilla y León, 107,035 had a single woman over the age of 65, and 54,527 had a man, according to INE data collected by EFE.
In Spain, with data from 2021, of the 18,553,289 households, a single person resided in 5,001,166, and the average number of members per household fell to 2.54 people in that year, from 2.58 in 2011 , thus continuing the decline observed over the past 50 years.
The most frequent households in 2021 were those made up of two people (28.1% of the total), although this group has been reduced by 238,091 households compared to 2011.
Of the 1,025,738 households in Castilla y León, 179,945 are from a couple without children, with 186,596 with children and some under 25 years of age, and 78,220 in which all the children are over 25 years of age.
319,801 homes, 31%, in municipalities with more than 100,000 inhabitants
The highest percentage of households in Castilla y León, 31 percent, with 319,801, are located in municipalities with more than 100,000 inhabitants of the Community.
In towns with less than one hundred residents, there are 20,405 homes, with 116,763 in those with up to five thousand, 132,635 between 50,000 and 100,000, 83,656 between 2,000 and 5,000, and 98,547 between 5,000 and 10,000.
813,250 owned homes, more than 79%, and 121,618 for rent
The INE data shows that in 2021, 813,250 of these homes were owned, 79.28 percent, and the rest, 121,618 for rent.
By provinces, in Ávila there are 7,197 of the 54,811 homes for rent, in Burgos 17,661 of 123,382; in León 26,469 of 152,345; in Palencia 6,547 of 55,733; in Salamanca 15,590 of 117,135; in Segovia, households with rental housing are 8,827 out of 47,797; with 4,643 of the 30,210 in Soria, 29,088 of the 168,869 in Valladolid and 5,576 of the 62,968 in Zamora.
Empty homes are around 20% in Castilla y León: 360,604 of the 1,829,895 in the Community
Castilla y León has 1,829,895 homes of which 360,604, 19.7 percent, are empty, according to data on homes by intensity of use based on electricity consumption for a full year, 2021, published this Friday by the National Statistics Institute (INE).
By provinces, in Ávila 37,424 of 171,947 are empty, in Burgos 48,577 of 275,636; in León 89,097 of 354,725; in Palencia 18,351 of 116,431; with 41,709 empty in Salamanca of 246,123; in Segovia 35,253 of 128,255; in Soria 21,159 of 84,255; Valladolid 27,222 of 296,910 and in Zamora 41,812 of 155,610.
In Spain, of the 26,623,708 homes, 14.4 percent, that is, 3,837,328, are empty, according to the same sources.
The statistic also includes the percentage of rental homes in each capital, in the comparison between 2021 and 2011, which indicates that in the last decade the percentage of rental homes increased in almost all provincial capitals, with Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Tarragona and Ciudad Real, with the most pronounced increases.
In Castilla y León, the capital with the highest number of rental homes is Segovia, with 21.4 percent (20.1 in 2011); followed by León, with 20.9 (19.2).
The Segovian capital occupies eleventh place by percentage of rental housing in the national group, followed by León, in a classification led by Barcelona with 31.1 percent.
As for the rest of the capitals of Castilla y León, in Salamanca rental housing accounts for 15.8 percent, 3 percent more than in 2011; with a 14.9 in Palencia (11.7); 14.6 in Valladolid (13.1); and 14 percent in Burgos (13.3).
Soria is one of the few capitals, along with Teruel and several Andalusians, especially Cádiz, in which the number of rental homes has fallen, which has gone from 15.6 to 12.1 percent, 3.5 points of decline .
In Zamora, rental housing accounts for 12.6 percent, compared to 10.2 in 2011. EFE