Dubai experienced a 6.2% increase in the number of households in the past year, reaching a total of 711,590 families in 2023 compared to 669,750 families in 2022. This growth equates to 41.8 thousand new families residing in the emirate.
Meanwhile, data from the Dubai Statistics Center – Digital Dubai indicates that the number of family members in Dubai also increased by 3.5% in 2023, totaling 2.855 million people as opposed to 2.756 million people in 2022. The average family size decreased slightly to 4 individuals from an average of 4.3 individuals in both years.
In terms of residential communities, Dubai saw an increase of just four new communities in 2023, bringing the total to an impressive number of 2,253 communities. This represents a small increase of just over half a percent compared to the previous year and just over two percent compared to the year before that. The number of residents in these residential communities also rose slightly to over eight hundred thousand people, up by about one percent from its previous year’s count of seven hundred ninety-four thousand residents.
The average size of one residential community in Dubai increased by more than two percent to over three hundred fifty-five people compared to three hundred fifty-three people last year and three hundred fifty-one people two years ago.
