UK household income and expenditure

[wellinghall]

Household expenditure (£ per week)
Food and non-alcoholic drinks: £46.89
Alcoholic drinks, tobacco and narcotics: £11.12
Clothing and footwear: £23.24
Housing (excluding mortgage interest payments and council tax, which for some reason are included in "other expenditure" below): £47.56
Household goods and services: £30.26
Health: £5.87
Transport: £62.03
Communication (including mobile phone equipment and services): £11.75
Recreation and culture: £58.48
Education: £7.22
Restaurants and hotels: £37.88
Miscellaneous goods and services: £36.01
Other expenditure: £77.59
Total expenditure: £455.89


Number of taxpayers by annual income
£5,225 - £7,500: 2.5m
£7,500 - £10,000: 3.6m
£10k - £15k: 6.4m
£15k - £20k: 4.9m
£20k - £30k: 6.7m
£30k - £50k: 5.2m
£50k - £100k: 1.8m
£100k - : 0.6m


Household ownership of durable goods (2006)
At least one car: 76%
Including: only one car: 44%
Two cars: 26%
Three or more cars: 6%
Central heating: 95%
Washing machine: 96%
Freezer: 97%
Dishwasher: 38%
Landline: 91%
Mobile phone: 80%
Home computer: 67%
DVD player or VCR: 83%
Digital TV service: 71%
Internet connection: 59%


Household savings
No savings: 35%
Less than £1,500: 21%
£1,500 - £10,000: 23%
£10,000 - £20,000: 8%
£20,000 - : 13%

Source: Whitaker's Almanack for 2009, based on various reports for the Office for National Statistics

Comments

[emperor]

What's the source of these?

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

Should have said - it's Whitaker's Alamanack for 2009, taking data from various ONS surveys.

[emperor]

Ah, and how many people are in the household? [I assume those are per-week figures, but on further reflection, maybe not]

The taxable-income groups are rather unequel - that information would be better presented as a graph, I feel :)

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

Yes, £ per week (didn't I say? - I'd better edit the post). The heading is just "household expenditure" - it probably lumps all households in together, whether they consist of one person or twenty.

The taxable-income groups are as given in the book - the original report may have more data. And I can't be bothered to put a graph on LJ at the moment - maybe when unemployment has eaten rather more deeply into my soul -

[piqueen.livejournal.com]

Facinating. Thanks. I'm amused to see that we're in the 5% of the population with no central heating but in the top bracket for level of savings. Clearly these things are not independent.

[beckyc.livejournal.com]

The flat that I rent doesn't have central heating either. I hadn't realised it had got up to so high a percentage already!

It does *have* heating, just that most of it isn't heating that is useful to me*, so I don't bother using the heating for heat.

*Night storage heaters heat the house when you aren't around. I never worked out what the point of that was...

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

The book gives the percentage having central heating as 91% in 2000, and 95% in 2006.

[philmophlegm.livejournal.com]

"*Night storage heaters heat the house when you aren't around. I never worked out what the point of that was..."

And the house is cold during the day, but hot at night when you're trying to sleep. Before we moved into our current house, we stayed in a holiday cottage that had them. Horrible things.

[muuranker.livejournal.com]

We have a strange variant of night storage heaters.

Night storage ceilings!!!!

The ceilings heat up at night, and then the house cools down during the day...

Well, actually, the cold air sinks down to the front door, leaving the rest of the place quite warm ....

[piqueen.livejournal.com]

We're in a similar boat. Rental flat with storage heaters but there's an electric heater in the bedroom so we tend to have that on part of the time.

[nineveh-uk.livejournal.com]

*Joins you with both* In my case there is a definite link - I have a rented flat, and am saving for a deposit. I look forward to the day in which I have no savings, but central heating.

[bunn.livejournal.com]

I wonder how internet connection is defined. It seems strangely low compared to home computer ownership, given that you don't need a computer to have internet. I wonder if the discrepancy is explained by people with laptops who use them outside the home...?

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

I see your point; the book doesn't say. But I would have though there were that many people with net access but without a computer, whereas there are some with computers but without the net.

[bunn.livejournal.com]

There are some, but I'm surprised (and somewhat dubious, to be honest) that there are that many more of them than people with consoles/phones etc that are net-connected.

At the very least, I'm thinking this must cover only static wired connections to people's houses (and therefore excludes all the people that only access at work/college, or via wireless)

I suppose there may be some people that use a computer basically as a typewriter, or are counting one that is in the loft and hasn't been used since 1997...

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

The figures are for "Household ownership of ... "

[bunn.livejournal.com]

I still don't think that's a useful identification. At most there will be a yearly contract, but no prior or subsequent contract is really required: any house with a phone line and a computer in it theoretically has net access, even if they aren't using it.

I mean, last week our household had ownership of a Cinnamon Whirl. But I ate it on Saturday so now we don't own one. :-D It's possible that in future we will rejoin the ranks of the Cinnamon Whirl Owning households, but the change is probably too evanescent to be transcribed in governmental documentation....

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

But it surely excludes college or work access.

[findabair.livejournal.com]

Huh. This is interesting - and surprising!

For instance - 72% of Norwegian households own a dishwasher according to Statistics Norway (www.ssb.no - I had to check, since 38% sounded very low to me :), and I would be very surprised if the percentage of households with central heating isn't far lower than 95%.

[rustica.livejournal.com]

What? Other expenditure, inc mortgage and council tax, £77 a week? Where do these people live, and pls can I live there too?

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

There will be some people who have already paid off their mortgage, I suppose.