Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Number of Adults Living in Cohousing

[Ann Zabaldo (zabaldo]

Totally understand!  I will round UP.

:-)



Best --

Ann Zabaldo
Takoma Village Cohousing
Washington, DC
Principal, Cohousing Collaborative, LLC
Falls Church, VA
703.688.2646

> On Jan 8, 2016, at 10:59 AM, Diane <dianeclaire [at] gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> Hi Ann,
> 
> I'm glad that  Angela found the time to do this.  Please check with her,
> but I think that those are approximate, not exact figures.  It is
> impossible to get exact figures as they change frequently and certainly
> have changed since we collected the data in 2012 -- some people are born
> and some die almost  every day; some move in and some move out of cohousing
> almost every day..  Therefore, it would be better to round up and say there
> are *about or approximately* 7,200 people living in cohousing; about 3,000
> are over 65; and about 2,800 are single.
> 
> Hope your proposal is successful,
> Diane
> 
> On Fri, Jan 8, 2016 at 10:38 AM, Ann Zabaldo <zabaldo [at] earthlink.net> 
> wrote:
> 
>> 
>> 
>> Happily, Angela Sanguinetti extrapolated numbers for me last night.  This
>> is data based on the 2012 survey by the Cohousing Research Network.  She
>> extrapolated numbers based on that data.
>> 
>> 2.5 persons (including 1.5 children) average household size
>> 
>> 7,135 persons living in cohousing in the summer of 2012
>> 
>> 2,925 people were 60+
>> 
>> 2, 783 were single.
>> 
> 
> -- 
> Diane Margolis
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> Cambridge, MA 02140
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