The General Authority for Statistics announced on Wednesday that the total housing units in the Kingdom recently reached 8.2 million units, with apartments accounting for 50.6% (mostly in Makkah at 66.8%), and 60.6% of Saudi citizens have become homeowners, especially after the ambitious “Sakani” program.
Regarding households in Saudi Arabia, the new census talked about their number, which amounted to 8.2 million households, the average size of one household came to about 3.7 individuals, the total number of Saudi households is 4.2 million, and 4.8 individuals as an average family size.

As for the demographics of the Kingdom, as the report explained, a total of 32.2 million people were recorded, with a growth rate of 34.2% from the 2010 census, with the capital Riyadh having the highest percentage of residents and citizens, amounting to 8.6 million people.

Riyadh has the highest population of residents and citizens. <The results indicated that the number of Saudis reached 18.8 million people at 58.4%, while the number of non-Saudis reached 13.4 million people at 41.6%, noting that the number of males reached 19.7 million people at 61%, while the number of females reached 12.The population in the regions of Riyadh, Makkah, and the Eastern Province represented 68% of the total population of the Kingdom, and Riyadh is the largest Saudi city in terms of population, followed by Jeddah, Makkah, Medina, and Dammam.

The Kingdom is characterized by its young population, with the average age of the population reaching 29 years, the average age of Saudis is 25 years, and the percentage of Saudis under the age of 30 years reached 63% of the total number of Saudis, while the number of housing in the Kingdom reached more than 8 million residences, of which residential apartments account for 51%.

The number of housing units in the Kingdom reached more than 8 million residences, of which residential apartments account for 51%. <With regard to family composition, the census results showed that the total number of Saudi families amounted to 4.2 million families, with an average size of 4.8 members per family, where the ratio of Saudi males to Saudi females was close to 50.2% for males compared to 49.8% for females. The average size of non-Saudi households was 2.7 members per household, and the proportion of males reached 76% of the total non-Saudis in the Kingdom.