Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Group Size Units to Adult Ratios

[Kevin Wolf (kjwolf]

At 09:14 AM 4/26/01 -0700, you wrote:
> A ratio is a division problem.
>
> 25/35=~.714 adults per household
>
> 43/53=~.811
>
> So you have a slightly higher ratio of adults to households. However, at the
> Madison, WI group, the ratio is 17/28=~.607, so they have fewer adults per
> household. This doesn't take children into account at all.

Liz
I would turn it around.  At N Street we have 17 houses and 37 adults 
.  Thus 37/17 equals 2.2 adults per household.  I doubt houses will average 
less than one adult per household, so I would reverse your ratios.  Thus
35/25 = 1.4 adults per house.
53/43 = 1.2 adults per house

This tells me that these communities have a lot of single parents or small 
houses with single people living in them.

At N Street we have two houses with  single parents and kids.  One adult 
lives in a granny flat apartment.  Three rental houses have 3 single adults 
in each.  The common house has four single people living in the four 
bedrooms.    One house has a married couple and child renting out a room to 
a single adult.   Another single adult rents a room in her home to another 
single adult.   The rest of the houses are more or less traditional 
families with two adults and kids per house.     In our early days our 
ratio was about 3 adults per household but has been going down as more of 
the rental houses have been bought and over time the owners don't need or 
want to rent out rooms like they did when they first bought them.

Kevin


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Kevin Wolf
N Street Cohousing Community member
724 N St, Davis, CA  95616
530-758-4211
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