In the book "Households according to the number of members", the Statistical Office of the Republic of Serbia publishes the final results of 2022 Census of Population, Households and Dwellings on the total number of households in the Republic of Serbia, according to the number of members and average size, by regions, areas, municipalities and settlements.

In this book, only data on private households (hereinafter: households) are presented, while the data on collective households and primary homeless people will be the subject of a separate analysis.

There is a total of 2 589 344 households in the Republic of Serbia. The average household has 2.55 members.

Table 1. Households by number of members, by regions

The most frequent are one-person households (29.9%), followed by two-member households with a share of 27.5% in the total number of households, three-member households (17.8%) and four-member households (14.5%). The share of households with more than four members is 10.3%.

Graph 1. Households by number of members (%), by regions

The largest share of one-person households in the total number of households is recorded in Beogradski region, where every third household is the one-person (33.4%), and in Region Vojvodine (31%). In Region Šumadije i Zapadne Srbije and in Region Južne i Istočne Srbije, two-member households are slightly more numerous than one-person households. These two regions also have a higher share of households with six or more members (close to 6%) compared to Beogradski region, where the share of households with six or more members is only 2.6%, and Region Vojvodine, where 3.4% of households has more than five members. 

Observed by type of settlement, the average household in urban-type settlements has 2.4 members, while households in other settlements have an average of 2.75 members. 

Graph 2. Households by number of members (%), by type of settlement

Data by municipalities and cities 

The municipalities with the smallest average household size are: Crna Trava (1.9 members), Vračar and Stari grad (2 members), Gadžin Han, Savski venac and Babušnica (2.1 members), while the largest average household size is in: Preševo (4.5 members), Bujanovac (4.1 members), Tutin (3.5 members), Sjenica and Novi Pazar (3.4 members). 

The largest share of one-person  households in the total number of households is present in the municipality of Crna Trava, where almost every second household is one-person  (48.5%), followed by the Belgrade municipalities of Stari grad (45.2%), Vračar (43.5%) and Savski venac (42.4%), and the municipalities of Gadzin Han (38.9%) and Babušnica (38.8%). On the other hand, the largest share of households with five or more members in the total number of households is recorded in: Preševo (47.3%), Bujanovac (38.6%), Tutin (30.5%), Sjenica (27.4%) and the city of Novi Pazar (26.6%).

Book 3. Households by number of members 

Table 1. Households by number of members 

Table 2. Average number of household members