A single-family home is a separate dwelling in which only members of a single family live. This is in contrast to apartment complexes, condominiums, duplexes, or terrace houses in which several families live in the same structure. It can also be called detached home. A dwelling is a structure in which humans or other animals live. ... A family of Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso in 1997 A family is a domestic group of people, or a number of domestic groups, typically affiliated by birth or marriage, or by comparable legal relationships including domestic partnership, adoption, surname and in some cases ownership (as was the case in the Roman... Borj-e Sefid apartments in Tehran, Iran An apartment (or flat in Britain and other Commonwealth countries) is a self-contained housing unit that occupies only part of a building. ... A condominium is a form of housing tenure. ... Semi-detached housing (usually abbreviated to semi, as in three-bedroom semi) consists of pairs of houses built side by side as units sharing a party wall and usually in such a way that each houses layout is a mirror image of its twin. ... A street of British terraced housing In architecture and city planning, a terrace, rowhouse, or townhouse (United States) is a style of housing since the late 18th century where identical individual houses are cojoined into rows. ...

Single-family homes are found mostly in suburbs, exurbs, and in rural areas. Large, inner city neighborhoods are so densely populated that there is generally not room for houses devoted to just a single family. Among the wealthy industralized nations, single family homes are most common in the United States, Australia, Canada and New Zealand. It has been suggested that Suburbia be merged into this article or section. ... The expression exurb (for extra-urban) was coined in the 1950s, by Auguste Comte Spectorsky in his book The Exurbanites, to describe the ring of prosperous rural communities beyond the suburbs that, due to availability via the new high-speed limited-access highways, were becoming dormitory communities for an urban... Rural area in Dalarna, Sweden Sheep eating grass in rural Australia Rural areas are sparsely settled places away from the influence of large cities and towns. ... The term inner-city is often applied to the poorer parts at the centre of a major city. ...

In the United Kingdom the term single-family home is not used. A "single-family home" in the U.S. and Canada the term refers to a detached house. The contrast between single-family homes/detached houses and multiple-family homes in the U.S. and Canada are not made or regarded as important. Instead the main division is between houses (detached, semi-detached or terraced) and flats (i.e. apartments in U.S. English).

There are variations of detached homes include:

• bungalow
• split level home

Template:Arch-stub A bungalow is any single story house. ... A split-level home is a style of house is a house in which one half of the house is one story, and the other half of the house is two stories. ...