The data delineates the share of individuals residing alone across five distinct age cohorts from 17 to 64 at four points in time between 1850 and 2000.
Overall, what stands out is the steeper trajectory of the older age brackets: by 2000, those aged 55-64 accounted for roughly 17%, nearly triple the figure recorded in 1850.
The age group of 17-26 does not indicate the presence of people living alone from 1850 to 1900, before edged up to around 2% by 1900 and gathered pace in the latter half of the centuty to reached 5% in 2000. The age group 27-36 appeared from 1900 onwards with roughly 2% and witnessed marginally changes in 1950, while the 37-46 cohort started with around 2% in 1850 and didn’t change significantly to 1950. At the and of the period – in 2000 they showed 8% and 7%, respectively.
The last odlest groups 47-54 and 55-64 started with around 2% and 3% in the 1850. The first groupstayed at approximately the same position, slightly increasing in 1900 and 1950, while the oldest bracket experienced a dramatic surge, skyrocketing from nearly 4% in 1900 to 9% in 1950. In 2000 the groups 47-56 and 55-64 reached the 13% and 17%,
respectively.