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

[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.