Prague, July 21 (CTK) – Eight percent of Czechs in working age live alone, both singles and those who have a stable partner, according to a poll carried out by the Data Collect agency for the Wuestenrot financial group and released yesterday.
This trend is reflected in a rising demand for mortgages on small flats.
According to the poll, 12 percent of men and 4 percent of women live alone, most often university graduates at the age of 25-34 years. A major part of them rent flats.
“However, we have registered the rise in the number of mortgage loans for individuals lately. They mostly seek one- or two-room flats,” said Dagmar Nahlikova, from Wuestenrot.
On the contrary, 67 percent of the polled share a household with their partner.
People who do not live with their stable partner are called “mingles” (married, but single). They consider a shared household a boring stereotype that might harm the relationship.
Some of these couples are even married and they are raising their children separately.
In Prague, 10 percent of inhabitants live alone, while the highest share of these people is in the Pardubice region (21 percent), east Bohemia.
Data Collect conducted the “Facts and Trends in Housing” poll on 500 respondents online in June.
