This equates to 1.7% of all households, up from 1% in 1997.
Across the country, the highest proportion was in Inner London at 6.5% of all households, three times more than the next highest - Outer London at 2.2%.
The lowest percentage was in the east of England at 0.5%, followed by 0.8% in the southwest and 0.9% in the southeast.
The chapter also looks at how employment rates for men and women have varied over the last 40 years. The employment rate for women rose from 53% in Q2 1971 to 66% in Q1 2011, slightly below the peak of 67% in Q1 2006.
For men, employment rates peaked in Q1 1971 at 92% with a low of 75% in Q1 2010. In Q1 2011 the employment rate for men stood at 76%.
Over the last 15 years not only has there been an increase in the employment rates for all women there has also been a narrowing of the gap in employment rates between women with and without dependent children.
In Q4 2010 the employment rate for women with dependent children stood at 66.5%, while the employment rate for women without dependent children stood at 67.3%. The gap in employment rates has narrowed from 5.8 percentage points in Q1 1996 to 0.8 percentage points in Q4 2010.
