OCR Text |
Show More "Singles" en Ovm In Grand County Living alone has become a modern-day development in Grand County. Many unattached men and women in 1 lit local area, who would have had no alternative in former years lint ito reside with relatives or friends, have ikVw found it possible to to support themselves and have their own living quarters. quar-ters. Included In this unattached unat-tached group are young people and older people who are unmarried as well as divorced and widowed persons who have remained remain-ed single. As ;i result of the liviug Jdone trend among this group, the number of dwelling dwell-ing units in Grand County that are occupied by otdy one person has risen considerably con-siderably in the last ten years. ( According to the Department De-partment of Commerce, ?.ho proportion of housing units in the local area that ar1 occupied by singles is now 11.3 pre cent. This compares com-pares with the 1900 average aver-age of 12.3 per cent. Elsewhere in the United States, the 1-person house holds amount to 17.0 per cent. In the Mountain Slates Uiey represent 17.0 per cent and, in the State of HI all, M.-l per cent. The report notes that il was common, years ago. for parents, when widowed, widow-ed, to move in with their married children so that tliey would not spend their twilight years alone. Today, however, the 3-generation 3-generation household is & rarity. More and more of these grandparents are living liv-ing alone and liking il. Many of them are holding down jobs, full time or part time. They tire aided by social security benefits and other income. As for the young people, because of the greater freedom they have acquired acquir-ed in the last decade there is an increasing tendency on their pari to live in tlieir own apartments or houses away from the parental par-ental home. The net result, because of these separations, has been a reduction in the number of people per household. It has dropped from a median of 3.0 persons per-sons per unit to 2.7 in the course of the last ten years. The figures show that the number of one-person households in Grand County Coun-ty is now 2GS, a big increase in-crease over 19G0, when the total was 223. |