Details in the Demographic and Health Survey 2022 released by the Kenya National Bureau of Statistics (KNBS) indicate that the country’s uneducated men own a house than the graduates.
The survey released on Tuesday shows 46.7% of Kenya’s men who own a house have no formal education, compared to 32.2% that have gone beyond secondary school.
Also the survey shows that similar pattern plays out for their female counterparts with the data showing 10% of house owners are women with no formal education compared to 3% that have gone up to tertiary level.
This could be a reflection of the rural-urban migration patterns where educated Kenyans end up in urban areas in search of jobs, where they end up renting or unable to afford homes while their counterparts in rural areas build their houses.
The data shows that 20% of uneducated men jointly own a house with a wife or someone else compared to 36.3% of their female counterparts.
Overall, 45% of men aged between 15 and 49 years own a house compared to 33% or less than a third of women under the same age bracket.
“Women in rural areas (44%) are more likely to own a house than women in urban areas (17%), although women in urban areas are much more likely to have a title deed for the house they own than women in rural areas,” says the Kenya Demographic and Health Survey (KDHS) data.
House ownership is highest among women aged 45 to 49 years at 63%and among men aged 50 and 54 years at 88%.
The KNDH report shows 43%of men who own a house alone are in rural areas while 21%are in urban settings.
The same data shows that 37%of women that jointly own a house are in rural areas while 15% are in urban settings.
