In 2023, the number of households in Dubai increased by 6.2%, reaching a total of 711,590 families compared to 669,750 families in the previous year. This growth equated to an addition of 41,800 new families residing in the emirate.
Data from the Dubai Statistics Center – Digital Dubai revealed 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 the previous year. Despite this increase, the average family size decreased slightly to 4 individuals from 4.1 individuals in the previous year and 4.3 individuals in the year before that.
In terms of residential communities, Dubai saw an increase of just four new communities in 2023, bringing the total to 2,253 communities. This represents a small increase of only 0.17% compared to the previous year and just over a quarter percent (or approximately two percent) compared to two years ago. The number of residents in these residential communities also rose by about one percent to reach approximately eight hundred thousand people from seven hundred ninety-four thousand residents in the previous year.
Despite this relatively low rate of growth for residential communities and population numbers overall, it’s worth noting that individual sizes within each community are continuing to grow at a faster pace than population numbers overall – with average sizes increasing by around one percent per year since at least 2019!