The bar chart depicts the percentage of English male and females in distinct age brackets who were having solitary lives in 2011, while the pie chart shows how many bedrooms one-person households had.
Overall, it is obvious that females tended to live solo more than males in 2011, especially people in the 65 to 85 and over age brackets. Moreover, it was most common to see two bedrooms in a one-person home.
A closer look at the bar chart shows that the older age groups, the higher proportion of women living alone. About 63% and 72% of females were living solo in 65-74 and 75-84 age categories, respectively. The age from 85 and over experienced the highest percentage of single female occupants, at roughly 76%. In contrast, males were living individually more than females in their younger ages, from 52% to 65% were witnessed at between 16 and 49 years old. Notably, both genders living alone shared the same percentages in the 50-64 age group.
Regarding the pie chart, in the same year, one-person households which had 2 bedrooms were the most prevalent, at 35.4%. Conversely, houses with four bedrooms or more just accounted for under 7%, while one-bedroom and three-bedroom houses occupied for 28% and 29.8%, respectively.