The data displays the average household size in the Netherlands from 1950 to 2017, by the number of residents. It reveals that between 1950 and 2017 the average household size in the Netherlands decreased continuously, from 3.93 residents per household in 1950 to 2.16 in 2017. This represents a decrease of almost 50% in a time span of 66 years. In total, there are approx. 7.8 million households in the Netherlands, as can be seen in this statistic on the total number of households in the Netherlands by type. The biggest number of these households were one-person households.
