there was no limit if someone else moved in they just made it longer
approximately 7 - 8 people lived in 1 longhouse, but they could fit from 20 - 24 depending on the size.
7 to 8 people live in a longhouse average though some were bigger.
many families could live in it at once.
A longhouse can hold 10 family or 250 in it
Many people lived in a longhouse because they were so large!
dozens of families lived together depending on the size of the longhouse. from 8 to 24 people.
Up to twenty families might live in one longhouse of the Iroquois. A longhouse was one family, but not the family as western people understand it. It was centred on a woman, the matriarch of the house, and included her children and her husband and anybody who was a sister, brother, sister-by-marriage or brother-by-marriage, and all the nephews or nieces of the matriarch.
In the Seneca tribe up to sixty people lived in a longhouse at one time. The longhouses could be as long as one hundred feet and housed Seneca clans.
about 60 vikings
10 people made longhouses
the Iroquois have Lots of people in there tribe and longhouses are made for 20 people.
Anywhere from 7 to 24 and beyond. Longhouses were family homes that grew with the size of the family. As each daughter of the family married, her husband would move into the longhouse and the birth of their children would result in an extension being built on the longhouse. People who lived in a longhouse together were considered part of the same clan.