The majority generation of residents in shared houses in Japan is 20 to 30. The following tables are about ratio classified by gender, age and employment type. In gender usage ratio, girls are the majority residents of shared houses in Japan. There is still disparity of income between male and female in Japan
Gender ratio of shared houses in Japan
| Gender | ratio |
|---|---|
| Girls | 68% |
| Boys | 20% |
| Eaqual ratio | 12% |
Generation ratio of shared houses in Japan
| Age | ratio |
|---|---|
| 20 to 30 | 56% |
| 30 to 40 | 33% |
| 40 to 60 | 5% |
| older than 60 | 5% |
| yonger than 20 | 5% |
Type of employment of residents
| Full time or Part time | ratio |
|---|---|
| Full time | 48% |
| Others | 33% |
| Part time | 18% |
Source from questionnaire suvey to residents of shared houses in Japan by
Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport in 2017
The features of shared houses’ residents
The following things are about the tendency of educational and working background of people living in a shared house. 80 to 90 percent of residents are single.
- While collar worker (Majority)
- Self-employment worker
- A person who has experienced working abroad
- Exchange students from Asian and Western coutnries
- A person who stay in Japan for short-term stay for business purpose.
- A person who study English by communicating with foreigners interactively
Basically, single while collar workers who want to save fixed cost get a majority of occupiers. Types of occupations are wide-ranging, which is not biased to a specific job type.
For self-employment works who need to take care of all the tasks by themselves, a shred house community where people can communicate interactively is the best to get rid of their boredom from shutting themselves behind closed doors for most of the day.
People who has experienced working abroad for years have no resistant to living in a shared house with someone. These people tend to look for a shared house to feel multi-national atmosphere and speak English. So people living in a shared house that accepts foreigners tend to speak English very well.
So many people have stereotype to a shared house that most of the residents are students but actually 50 to 60 percent of residents are women. This is partly because women have no resistant to living with someone and mainly because they don’t want to force themselves to rent a cheap single apartment which is dirty, small and uncomfortable compared to a shared house in spite of the same rent. It is worth for them to live cleanly and comfortably rather than to live uncomfortably by themselves.
Compared to a single apartment, ratio of the foreign residents in shared houses is slightly higher but usually total foreigner residents are 10% of total occupiers of a shared house. Even if a shared house gives weight to international communication, total foreigners that occupies rooms are 30 to 40 percent to entire residents. So wherever you go. Japanese residents are the majority.