Marriage rate and house prices.
Editor’s note: This article is from WeChat public account: Real Estate Intelligence Station, (ID: dichanqbz) , author: white Luo, authorized reprint
Recently, the marriage rate in China has hit a new low in a decade. Everyone said that they can’t afford to get married and can’t afford a house. In contrast, the number of people living alone in China has reached 77 million. The proportion of single-family young women who buy houses in big cities has increased year by year.
In the end, is housing prices affecting marriage, or is the people’s ideas changed?
Marriage rate is the lowest in history
In many people’s minds, marriage is a must to buy a house.
There is a fixed, own house that, to a certain extent, can bring “safety.” Marriage requires a house to house its own “small family”. After that, children need to study in the “school district” to provide a degree; in another 20 years, the child should be married to buy a house.
Under the current situation, marriage and birth in China are closely related to buying a house. “Marriage = buy a house.” Therefore, more and more people said that “you can’t afford to buy a house, and you still have to marry.”
However, is it really high prices that cause people not to marry? According to data from the National Bureau of Statistics and the Civil Affairs Bureau, from a national perspective, the marriage rate in 2018 was only 7.2 ‰, a figure that set a historical low for a decade.
The national marriage rate is very low, and the lowest Shanghai marriage rate in 2018 is only 4.4. But there are low and high, only one area is not comprehensive.
In 2018, China handled 10.139 million pairs of marriage registration in accordance with the law. Some media conducted relevant questionnaire surveys. Under the question of “the reason why young people are not married,” the “reason is not the single” accounted for the highest proportion, while the “economic conditions have not yet reached” and “negative lack of abuse” followed closely, “enjoy Singles also account for a small share.
Most modern people believe that marriage is not just a marriage certificate, a house, but often involves the family and future child support issues.
The webmaster also verified the data in the more developed provinces (such as Beijing, Shanghai, Guangdong, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Fujian, Tianjin, Henan, Hebei, Hubei, Hunan, etc.).