Key messages:
- In 2023, just over one in twenty people in the second half of their lives were living in a LAT (Living-Apart-Together) partnership.
- People in middle adulthood are most likely to live in a LAT partnership, and the older the person, the lower the proportion of LAT partnerships in their age group.
- The proportion of people in LAT partnerships does not differ according to income or gender.
- People with a high level of education are more likely to live in a LAT partnership than people with a medium level of education.
- Half of the people in LAT partnerships consider moving in together to be easy or quite possible.
- Overall, just over half of people living in LAT partnerships would like to share a household with their partner, whereas just under half do not express such a wish.
- The majority of those who consider moving in together to be easily possible would also like to share a household.