Some characteristics of moving households in Scotland were:
17. Just under 700,000 people lived in moving households – 14 per cent of the population living in households.
18. Of those living in moving households:
19. Around 290,000 households were moving households - 13 per cent of the total. Of these:
The main characteristics which distinguished moving households from non-moving households in Scotland were:
20. 25 per cent of people in wholly moving households lived alone, compared with only 14 per cent of the household population.
21. People in moving households were more than twice as likely to be aged between 20 and 34 as people in non-moving households – 40 per cent of residents of moving households were in this age group, compared with 17 per cent for non-moving households.
22. Moving households were more likely to contain dependent children than non-moving households.
23. Moving households were more likely than non moving households to live in a purpose built block of flats or a tenement but less likely to live in detached, semi-detached or terraced accommodation.
24. Moving households were much more likely to be in the private rented sector than non-moving households – while around a quarter of moving households were in this sector, only 5 per cent of non moving households were.
25. Household reference persons in moving households were much more likely to have educational qualifications than heads of non-moving households - around three quarters of heads of moving households had some level of qualifications compared with around 60 per cent for heads of non-moving households.
The main characteristics which distinguished wholly moving households from partly moving households in Scotland were:
26. Substantially more moving groups in partly moving households consisted of just one person - 87 per cent of groups in partly moving households were one person groups, compared with only 25 per cent for wholly moving households.
27. Migrants in partly moving households were more likely to be full-time students (21 per cent) than those in wholly moving households (8 per cent).
28. Migrants in wholly moving households were more likely to be economically inactive non-students (26 per cent) than those in partly moving households (14 per cent).
29. Partly moving households were larger than wholly moving households - a wholly moving household contained an average of two people, while a partly moving household averaged three people.
30. Moving group reference persons in wholly moving households were older than in partly moving households – the average age of group heads was 39 for wholly moving households and 28 for partly moving households.
31. Wholly moving households were more likely than partly moving households to contain a married couple - 54 per cent of wholly moving households, compared with 32 per cent of partly moving households.
32. All wholly moving households, by definition, contain one moving group. In partly moving households, 57 per cent contained one moving group with a further 36 per cent containing two separate groups.
33. Moving group reference persons in large wholly moving households (five or more residents) were much more likely than those in large partly moving households to be aged 25-44 - 82 per cent of all moving group heads in large wholly moving households were in this age group, compared with 37 per cent for partly moving households.
Other points of interest at Scotland level were:
34. Households with a Pakistani or Other South Asian reference person were much more likely to contain at least four people than any other ethnic group – 30 per cent of wholly moving households with a Pakistani or Other South Asian head had four or more residents, compared with 12 per cent for all wholly moving households.
35. Among people in wholly moving households who were not the moving group reference person, 54 per cent were their son or daughter, 29 per cent were their husband or wife and 9 per cent were their partner.
36. 37 per cent of partly moving households were all-migrant households, with the remaining 63 per cent containing both migrant(s) and non-migrant(s).
The main findings at sub-Scotland level were:
37. Households in City of Edinburgh were the most likely to be moving households, with those in East Dunbartonshire the least likely.
38. Around two thirds of council areas gained migrants in wholly moving households from other parts of Scotland. The main areas losing migrants of this type were the four city council and the three islands council areas.
39. Four fifths of all council areas lost partly moving households to the rest of Scotland. City of Edinburgh and Glasgow City were the main gainers of partly moving households with the three islands council areas experiencing the largest losses.
40. Large urban areas lost people in wholly moving households to all the other five urban/rural area types but gained people in partly moving households from all five areas.
41. Scotland gained almost 1,500 residents in wholly moving households from the rest of the UK but lost almost 2,400 residents in partly moving households.
42. The gain from the rest of the UK of people in wholly moving households and loss of people in partly moving households was largely accounted for by moves to and from London.
43. 52 per cent of migrants from abroad who lived in households were in wholly moving households. This figure was particularly high for migrants who came in from the Middle East (69 per cent).
44. The largest source of net in-migration of partly moving households to Edinburgh came from the other three of Scotland’s four largest cities and St. Andrews and Stirling.