孤独死

A person living alone who dies at home and is not found for some time. No statute defines the term and no statistic counts exactly it. The closest public measure is the police count of people living alone who died at home, which does not itself require any delay in discovery: 76,941 such deaths in 2025, out of 204,562 bodies handled in all[1]. The delay is the part that matters to a property, and the police publish that separately: of those 76,941, 22,222 were found eight days or more after death, and 7,148 after a month or more[2]. A lonely death is not automatically disclosable. What changes the answer is exactly that delay: if the body went undiscovered long enough that specialist cleaning or major renovation was needed, the ministry guideline treats the case as material even though the death itself was natural[3].