Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: singles in cohousing

[Kay Argyle (kay.argyle]

At move-in, Wasatch Commons had

- 9 couples, 5 with kids
- 15 single women, 6 with kids
- 3 single men, 2 with kids

Most of the households with kids joined less than a year before move-in.

Currently, 
10 couples, 7 with kids
14 single women, 4 with kids
3 single men

> There are also more women born 

Not true.  In the U.S. it's about 105:100 male. That's thought to be about
the natural ratio for humans.  See
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/pressroom/05facts/moreboys.htm or
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex_ratio

> and more of them survive childhood.
> They live longer so there are more of them with each passing year,

At every age, men have a higher death rate than women (so it's not
surprising nature compensates with more male births). The population ratio
crosses about age 35 in developed countries; after that there are more women
in every age group, with the gap increasing with age, becoming nearly two to
one over age 85.

Kay