# Households with children count

Counts the number of families in the surrounding postcode with own children of the householder under 18, summed across married-couple, male-householder, and female-householder family types.

- API name: `households_with_children_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: Uses the first available of up to 3 source fields.
- Middle 50% of values: 11 to 401 count

## Links

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