One in four Longyearbyen and Ny-Ålesund residents lives alone
Svalbard WirePublished 15 OctoberReport by the Wire.
Longyeardalen, the Longyear valley, with the Elvesletta apartment blocks on the left and Sarkofagen behind. File picture, April 2022. Photo: Bjørn Christian Tørrissen, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons.
NRK Troms og Finnmark reported on 15 October that one in four residents of Longyearbyen and Ny-Ålesund lives alone, with 27% given as the share.
SSB's household table shows 677 one-person households, 51.8% of private households, and 27.0% of people in private households. There were 318 two-person households (24.3%), 149 with three persons (11.4%) and 104 with four (8.0%). Households of five or more persons made up 4.5%.
SSB tables give earlier figures. On 1 January 2017, 24.9% of people in private households lived alone. On 1 July 2020 the share was 26.9%.
Statistics Norway, Government. Flyttestrøm til Svalbard. https://www.ssb.no/befolkning/artikler-og-publikasjoner/flyttestrom-til-svalbard Halvaar. https://www.ssb.no/befolkning/statistikker/befsvalbard/halvaar Population of Svalbard. https://www.ssb.no/en/befsvalbard/ Tabell - Privathusholdninger og personer i privathusholdninger etter husholdningsstørrelse. Longyearbyen og Ny-Ålesund.. https://www.ssb.no/305333/privathusholdninger-og-personer-i-privathusholdninger-etter-husholdningsstorrelse.longyearbyen-og-ny-alesund Befolkningen pa svalbard. https://www.ssb.no/befolkning/folketall/statistikk/befolkningen-pa-svalbard
NRK, Press. Her bur 1 av 4 aleine. https://www.nrk.no/tromsogfinnmark/her-bur-1-av-4-aleine-1.18056173
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