Wednesday 2 November 2022 04:43 PM Divorce rate jumps to eight-year high as 'lockdown put even the strongest ... trends now
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Divorce rates have spiked throughout England and Wales to the highest number in eight years while the number of households has risen to 24 million, newly released data found.
In total, 113,505 couples were granted a divorce in 2021 alone, according to figures released on Wednesday by the Office for National Statistics (ONS).
This is a 9.6 per cent increase on the last reporting period in 2020 when there were 103,592 divorces. It also marks the highest divorce rate since 2013.
Meanwhile there are now 24.78 million households in England and Wales, marking a 6.1 per cent increase (or 1.4 million more houses) on the data for 2011.
The boroughs of Kensington, Chelsea and Westminster experienced drops in the number of households by up to 14.8 per cent.
Helen Morrissey, an analyst at Hargreaves Lansdown, said the divorce data could be indicative of the pressure Covid
