English housing: persons buying homes with mortgage in 2018/2019, by household type

This statistic illustrates a breakdown of people who lived in a home bought with a mortgage in England in 2018/2018, by household type. It can be seen that the largest share of respondents in the category of bought with mortgage were couples with dependent child(ren), with a share of 35.4 percent of homeowners with a mortgage. With a share of 25.1 percent, more than twice as many homeowners with a mortgage were couples with no dependent children when compared to couples with independent children (9.1 percent) at that time. Finally, lone parents with dependent and independent child(ren) made up the smallest share of homeowners with a mortgage at that time, a share of 0.7 percent.