UK household income and expenditure

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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

[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 ....