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Houston Household Makeup and Size

2010 Household Family Makeup Statistics Houston, TX Texas United States
Family HH 532,032 64.59% 6,467,157 71.48% 80,786,957 68.23%
Non-Family HH 291,675 35.41% 2,580,511 28.52% 37,615,186 31.77%
Family Households
Married Family HH 369,533 69.46% 4,977,912 76.97% 61,788,433 76.48%
Other Family HH 162,499 30.54% 1,489,245 23.03% 18,998,524 23.52%
Other Family Households
Male Householder, No Wife Present 44,979 27.68% 412,453 27.70% 5,269,052 27.73%
Female Householder, No Husband Present 117,520 72.32% 1,076,792 72.30% 13,729,472 72.27%
Married Family Households
with Children Under 18 189,479 51.28% 2,457,343 49.36% 26,914,156 43.56%
with No Children Under 18 180,054 48.72% 2,520,569 50.64% 34,874,277 56.44%
Other Family Households
Male Householder, No Wife Present with Children Under 18 20,474 12.60% 216,450 14.53% 2,679,014 14.10%
Male Householder, No Wife Present with No Children Under 18 24,505 15.08% 196,003 13.16% 2,590,038 13.63%
Female Householder, No Husband Present with Children Under 18 73,205 45.05% 679,602 45.63% 8,162,103 42.96%
Female Householder, No Husband Present with No Children Under 18 44,315 27.27% 397,190 26.67% 5,567,369 29.30%
Non-Family Households
Male Householder 152,717 52.36% 1,286,669 49.86% 17,889,615 47.56%
Female Householder 138,958 47.64% 1,293,842 50.14% 19,725,571 52.44%

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Family Household: A family household is a household maintained by a householder who is in a family, and includes any unrelated people (unrelated subfamily members and/or secondary individuals) who may be residing there.

Married Family Household: A married family household consists of a married householder and one or more other persons living in the same household who are related to the householder by birth, marriage or adoption.

Other Family Household: An other family household consists of a householder and one or more other persons living in the same household who are related to the householder by birth or adoption. These households may have a Male Householder with No Wife Present and/or Female Householder with No Husband Present.

Non-Family Household: A non-family household consists of a householder living alone (a one-person household) or where the householder shares the home exclusively with people to whom he/she is not related.

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Houston Household Average Size Graph

2010 Household Size Statistics Houston, TX Texas United States
Households 823,707 9,047,668 118,402,143
Household Growth Since 2000 15.76% 22.38% 12.25%
Average Household Size 2.70 2.70 2.54
Median Household Size 2.74 2.86 2.73
1 Person 236,817 28.75% 2,088,209 23.08% 30,136,064 25.45%
2 Person 235,540 28.60% 2,835,253 31.34% 39,659,597 33.50%
3 Person 127,946 15.53% 1,520,670 16.81% 19,037,063 16.08%
4 Person 115,840 14.06% 1,467,065 16.21% 17,509,838 14.79%
5 Person 62,331 7.57% 714,860 7.90% 7,800,606 6.59%
6 Person 26,318 3.20% 261,875 2.89% 2,691,520 2.27%
7 or More Person 18,915 2.30% 159,736 1.77% 1,567,455 1.32%

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Houston, Texas Demographics Summary

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