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Sarah Coulet
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Jan 16, 2025 at 7:54 a.m.
In what types of families and housing do young Ile-de-France residents live? To answer this question, INSEE conducted a survey in Île-de-France in 2021. The results were published this Wednesday, January 15, 2025 and unsurprisingly, it appears that the children did not not the same family patterns depending on the department where they grow up.
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Disparities between departments
First observation: in Île-de-France, 69 % children live in a traditional family, 22 % in a single-parent family and 9 % in a rewarded family. Figures slightly above the national average.
But significant disparities appear if we zoom in on the departments of the inner suburbs. Thus, when in Hauts-de-Seine 73.25% of children live in a traditional family. They are 65.95% in Seine-Saint-Denis.
Conversely, families single parents are much more represented in Seine-Saint-Denis where 24.47% of minors live with only one of their parents while there are only 19.87% in Hauts-de-Seine. Same observation for families recomposed: 6.87% of children experience this pattern in Hauts-de-Seine compared to 9.57% in Seine-Saint-Denis.
A family structure which has an impact on the environment in which the younger generation grows up: in Seine-Saint-Denis, 44% of children live in a overoccupied housing. To a lesser extent, small Parisians and Val-de-Marnais are also affected at 34% and 33%. Figures well above the regional (28%) and national (13%) average.
What is overoccupied housing?
INSEE defines overoccupied housing as follows: “Overoccupancy of a home refers to the available space or privacy for a household. So that a home is not too small for its occupants, it must consist of at least one living room, one room for each couple, one room for each other adult aged 19 or over, one room for two children if they are of the same sex or under 7 years old, and one piece per child otherwise.”
For INSEE, “this is partly explained by the relatively higher proportion of children living in a single-parent family” in these three departments where housing is also smaller.
Another observation from the National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies: in Seine-Saint-Denis, the sizes of siblings are higherwhatever the type of family.
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