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

[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.