---
"title": "Multi-Generational Households in Europe"
"description": "Among Europeans ages 25-34, nearly one-in-three men and one-in-five women lived with at least one of their parents in 2008, according to a recent report from the European Commission."
"date": "2010-10-08"
"authors":
  -
    "name": "D’Vera Cohn"
    "job_title": "Former Senior Writer/Editor"
    "link": "https://alpha.pewresearch.org/pewresearch-org/staff/dvera-cohn/"
"url": "https://alpha.pewresearch.org/pewresearch-org/social-trends/2010/10/08/multi-generational-households-in-europe/"
"categories":
  - "Household Structure & Family Roles"
---

# Multi-Generational Households in Europe

Among Europeans ages 25-34, nearly one-in-three men and one-in-five women lived with at least one of their parents in 2008, according to a [recent report from the European Commission. ](http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/cache/ITY_PUBLIC/3-08102010-AP/EN/3-08102010-AP-EN.PDF)The highest shares were in Bulgaria for men (61%) and in Slovakia for women (42%).

These figures are higher than they are in the United States, where there has been a [recent rise in multi-generational family households,](https://alpha.pewresearch.org/pewresearch-org/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2010/10/752-multi-generational-families.pdf) as documented in a recent Pew Research Center report. According to the report, which is based on census data, 22% of men and 18% of women ages 25-34 lived in a multi-generational family household in 2008; in the vast majority of cases, they lived with one or both of their parents. In October 2009, a Pew Research Center survey found that 13% of parents with grown children said one of their adult sons or daughters had moved back home in the previous year.