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According to the Department of Commerce, the proportion of housing units in the local area that are occupied by singles is now 14.3 percent. This compares with the 1960 average of 8.3 percent.
Elsewhere in the United States, the one-person households amount to 17.6 percent. In the South Atlantic States they represent 15.9 percent and, in the State of Virginia, 14.4 percent. The report notes that it was common, years ago, for parents, when widowed, to move in with their married children so that they would not spend their twilight years alone.
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