General Article Loneliness

Topic Selected: Loneliness Book Volume: 462

An extract from: Public opinions and social trends, Great Britain: January 2025.

One in four adults (25%) reported feeling lonely ‘often or always’ or ‘some of the time’ (7% often or always; 18% some of the time). This has remained relatively stable since we first started collecting data in March 2020 (23%). A further one in four (24%) reported feeling lonely ‘occasionally’, and around one in two adults (49%) reported feeling lonely ‘hardly ever’ or ‘never’.

Younger adults consistently report...

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