# Households count

Counts the total number of households in the surrounding postcode. A household includes all people occupying a housing unit as their usual place of residence, whether related (family) or not (nonfamily).

- API name: `households_count`
- Category: Demography
- Type · unit: Integer · count
- Postcodes with a value: 34.0K (99.7%)
- Latest collection: Dec 31, 2024, refreshed yearly
- How values combine: Read from a single source field.
- Middle 50% of values: 463 to 7,893 count

## Links

- [Catalog page](/catalog/v2/households_count)
- [Published statistics (JSON)](https://static.faraday.ai/figv2/households_count.json)
- [API reference](/docs/reference/getattribute)