The cost of being single: more on bills, less on fun, and most of your financial resilience
Sarah Coles
Singles are forced to spend 22% more on essential housing per person than their couple counterparts – despite living in cheaper accommodation.
They also spend more per person on fixed costs like food (28%) and communications (32%).
They spend 21% less per person on eating out and hotel stays in the UK (despite the single supplement in hotels), 13% less on clothes and shoes and 13% less on recreation and culture.
Even this leaves them worse off, with fewer holding enough emergency...