China: urban migrant workers accommodation size 2023

In 2023, migrant laborers living in cities with more than five million inhabitants had on average 19.1 square meters of living space at their accommodation place. The size of their accommodation improved slightly compared to the previous year. Migrant workers in smaller cities lived in considerably larger accommodations than those in big cities.

Average living space of urban migrant laborers' accommodation in China from 2019 to 2023, by size of city (in square meters)

Characteristic	2019	2020	2021	2022*	2023*
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Release date

April 2024

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Region

China

Survey time period

2019 to 2023

Supplementary notes

* In 2022 and 2023, only data on cities below 500 thousand and above 5 million inhabitants have been published.

The data have been collected through a survey which covered rural workers from 31 provinces, 1,730 districts and 8,613 villages in 2023. Migrant laborers are defined as workers that are still registered as rural permanent residents, but have left their place of origin for more than six months in order to find work in another place. They either stay in the same province or move to another province in search of work.

Figures for earlier years have been taken from previous publications.

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