16.4%
2025 (latest)
ADULTS AGED 25–34 LIVING WITH PARENTS
percent · 1960–2025 · neither direction is "better" · computed from the U.S. Census Bureau historical family and living-arrangement tables (counts divided within the same table)
9.1%
1960
17.8%
high · 2020
8.0%
low · 1970
+7.4 pts
since 1960
┊ dashed lines mark 1979 Oil shock & inflation peak · 1987 Black Monday crash · 1991 Gulf War recession · 2001 Dot-com bust & 9/11 · 2008 Global financial crisis · 2020 COVID-19 pandemic
Method & caveats. Computed from male plus female children of householders divided by male plus female population aged 25–34, never averaging sex-specific percentages. Unmarried college students in dormitories are counted in their parents' homes in CPS data. Breaks: 2014 ASEC questionnaire redesign; decennial population-control revisions (the publisher's lettered r rows, taken over the original); 2021 appears twice in the tables (the later-method row is taken); 2025 uses Vintage-2025 population controls; 2019 onward includes same-sex married couples.
Sources
Every value on this page is read from the publisher below. Current and historical source documents:
- https://www2.census.gov/programs-surveys/demo/tables/families/time-series/adults/ad1.xls
- https://github.com/danielmiessler/substrate/tree/main/Data/US-Family-And-Society
Data
| Year | Adults aged 25–34 living with parents | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 16.4% | +0.6 pts |
| 2024 | 15.8% | −0.2 pts |
| 2023 | 16.0% | +0.4 pts |
| 2022 | 15.6% | −1.2 pts |
| 2021 | 16.8% | −1.0 pts |
| 2020 | 17.8% | +1.0 pts |
| 2019 | 16.8% | −0.0 pts |
| 2018 | 16.8% | +0.7 pts |
| 2017 | 16.1% | +0.0 pts |
| 2016 | 16.1% | +0.9 pts |
| 2015 | 15.1% | +0.4 pts |
| 2014 | 14.7% | +0.8 pts |
| 2013 | 13.9% | +0.3 pts |
| 2012 | 13.6% | +0.2 pts |
| 2011 | 13.4% | −0.0 pts |
| 2010 | 13.4% | +0.7 pts |
| 2009 | 12.8% | +0.0 pts |
| 2008 | 12.7% | +0.9 pts |
| 2007 | 11.8% | +0.2 pts |
| 2006 | 11.6% | +0.7 pts |
| 2005 | 10.8% | −0.1 pts |
| 2004 | 10.9% | +0.7 pts |
| 2003 | 10.2% | −0.7 pts |
| 2002 | 10.9% | +0.4 pts |
| 2001 | 10.6% | +0.0 pts |
| 2000 | 10.6% | −0.7 pts |
| 1999 | 11.2% | −0.3 pts |
| 1998 | 11.5% | −0.1 pts |
| 1997 | 11.6% | −0.7 pts |
| 1996 | 12.3% | +0.4 pts |
| 1995 | 11.9% | −0.3 pts |
| 1994 | 12.2% | −0.1 pts |
| 1993 | 12.3% | +0.3 pts |
| 1992 | 12.0% | +0.2 pts |
| 1991 | 11.8% | +0.3 pts |
| 1990 | 11.5% | +0.3 pts |
| 1989 | 11.2% | −0.4 pts |
| 1988 | 11.6% | +0.6 pts |
| 1987 | 11.1% | −0.0 pts |
| 1986 | 11.1% | +0.5 pts |
| 1985 | 10.6% | +0.3 pts |
| 1984 | 10.4% | −0.3 pts |
| 1983 | 10.6% | +2.0 pts |
| 1980 | 8.7% | +0.7 pts |
| 1970 | 8.0% | −1.1 pts |
| 1960 | 9.1% | — |
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