This publication is the thematic elaboration, in which the results of the Population and Housing Census 2011 concerning Podlaskie Voivodship are presented. It includes the demographic and social characteristics of households, families and their population. The publication provides a wide range of information concerning number, size, family and generation composition of households as well as demographic and social characteristics of households representatives. Moreover, in the elaboration were presented data concerning number and types of families and families with children, including dependent children up to the age of 24 years old. In order to show the scale and directions of changes, which occurred in the period between censuses in Podlaskie Voivodship, the selected results of the Census in 2011 were compared with the data collected during the census conducted in 2002.