Labour and Social Statistics Section Sixty-four per cent of British Columbians who maintain their own households are home owners.
Men are more likely than women to own their homes.
Seventy per cent of males who head a household own their residences, compared to only half of all female household maintainers. The share of young to middle aged adults who own their homes has declined. In 1981, one out of every five household maintainers under the age of 25 was a home owner. By 1991, the proportion had dropped to one in seven. Forty-four per cent of 25 to 34 year olds owned their homes in 1991, down 9 percentage points from ten years earlier.