Households today
How many households are there in the Netherlands?
At the beginning of 2024, there were 8.4 million private households in the Netherlands, 3.3 million of which were single-person households. The average Dutch household consists of 2.11 people; in 1964 the average household size was 3.49. This phenomenon, sometimes known as ‘household shrinkage’, means that the number of households has grown much faster than the population.