{"id":7995,"date":"2023-05-03T09:54:24","date_gmt":"2023-05-03T14:54:24","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2025-04-23T23:55:06","modified_gmt":"2025-04-24T03:55:06","slug":"in-the-u-s-and-abroad-more-young-adults-are-living-with-their-parents","status":"publish","type":"short-read","link":"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/short-reads\/2023\/05\/03\/in-the-u-s-and-abroad-more-young-adults-are-living-with-their-parents\/","title":{"rendered":"Young adults in the U.S. are less likely than those in most of Europe to live in their parents\u2019 home"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-640-wide\"><img decoding=\"async\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" src=\"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/SR_23.04.10_YoungAdultsParents_feature.jpg?w=640\" alt=\"Family members doing different things in their living room.\" class=\"wp-image-429066\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">(Cavan Images via Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One-in-three <a href=\"https:\/\/www.census.gov\/data\/tables\/time-series\/demo\/families\/adults.html\">U.S. adults ages 18 to 34 live in their parents\u2019 home<\/a>, according to U.S. Census Bureau data from 2021. In a Pew Research Center survey conducted that same year, Americans were <a href=\"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/short-reads\/2022\/08\/24\/americans-more-likely-to-say-its-a-bad-thing-than-a-good-thing-that-more-young-adults-live-with-their-parents\/\">more likely to see young adults living with their parents as a bad thing<\/a> than a good thing for society.<\/p>\n\n\n<div style=\"border-width:1px;padding-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--20);padding-left:var(--wp--preset--spacing--30);padding-right:var(--wp--preset--spacing--30);padding-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--20);--block-gap: inherit\" class=\"wp-block-prc-block-collapsible has-background has-ui-beige-very-light-background-color has-border-color has-ui-beige-dark-border-color\" id=\"how-we-did-this\" data-wp-interactive=\"{&quot;namespace&quot;:&quot;prc-block\\\/collapsible&quot;}\" data-wp-context=\"{&quot;collapsibleId&quot;:&quot;how-we-did-this&quot;,&quot;isOpen&quot;:false}\" data-wp-class--is-open=\"context.isOpen\" data-wp-init--scroll-into-view=\"callbacks.onInitScrollIntoView\"><div class=\"wp-block-prc-block-collapsible__title\" data-wp-on--click=\"actions.onClick\"><div>How we did this<\/div><button class=\"wp-block-prc-block-collapsible__icon\"><span data-wp-bind--hidden=\"context.isOpen\"><i class=\"icon icon-library__light icon__circle-plus\"><svg style=\"width: 1em; height: 1em;\"><use xlink:href=\"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/plugins\/prc-icon-library\/build\/icons\/sprites\/light.svg#circle-plus\"><\/use><\/svg><\/i><\/span><span data-wp-bind--hidden=\"!context.isOpen\" hidden><i class=\"icon icon-library__light icon__circle-minus\"><svg style=\"width: 1em; height: 1em;\"><use xlink:href=\"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/plugins\/prc-icon-library\/build\/icons\/sprites\/light.svg#circle-minus\"><\/use><\/svg><\/i><\/span><\/button><\/div><div class=\"wp-block-prc-block-collapsible__content\">\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Pew Research Center conducted this analysis as an update to a May 2016 analysis about the share of adults ages 18 to 34 living in their parents\u2019 home in the United States and abroad. For this analysis, we used 2021 data from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.census.gov\/data\/tables\/time-series\/demo\/families\/adults.html\">U.S. Census Bureau<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/eurostat\/databrowser\/view\/ILC_LVPS08__custom_5954993\/default\/table?lang=en\">Eurostat<\/a>, a European statistical agency.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Eurostat data is gathered by individual countries under a shared framework for data collection; reporting practices may differ slightly from the Census Bureau\u2019s protocols. We have limited this analysis to a snapshot in time rather than included historical trends because data collection and reporting practices have changed over time in some European countries. The change in reporting means that results from 2021 are not comparable with older data for certain countries.<\/p>\n\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignright size-420-wide\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-10316\" href=\"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/short-reads\/2023\/05\/03\/in-the-u-s-and-abroad-more-young-adults-are-living-with-their-parents\/sr_23-04-10_youngadultsparents_1-png\/\"><img data-dominant-color=\"ece4da\" data-has-transparency=\"false\" style=\"--dominant-color: #ece4da;\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 420px) 100vw, 420px\" height=\"591\" width=\"420\" src=\"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2023\/04\/SR_23.04.10_YoungAdultsParents_1.png?w=420\" alt=\"A map that shows many young Europeans live with their parents, especially in southern and eastern Europe. \" class=\"wp-image-10316 not-transparent\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2023\/04\/SR_23.04.10_YoungAdultsParents_1.png 840w, https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2023\/04\/SR_23.04.10_YoungAdultsParents_1.png?resize=213,300 213w, https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2023\/04\/SR_23.04.10_YoungAdultsParents_1.png?resize=768,1081 768w, https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2023\/04\/SR_23.04.10_YoungAdultsParents_1.png?resize=728,1024 728w, https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2023\/04\/SR_23.04.10_YoungAdultsParents_1.png?resize=288,405 288w, https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2023\/04\/SR_23.04.10_YoungAdultsParents_1.png?resize=200,281 200w, https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2023\/04\/SR_23.04.10_YoungAdultsParents_1.png?resize=260,366 260w, https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2023\/04\/SR_23.04.10_YoungAdultsParents_1.png?resize=310,436 310w, https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2023\/04\/SR_23.04.10_YoungAdultsParents_1.png?resize=420,591 420w, https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2023\/04\/SR_23.04.10_YoungAdultsParents_1.png?resize=640,901 640w, https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2023\/04\/SR_23.04.10_YoungAdultsParents_1.png?resize=740,1041 740w, https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2023\/04\/SR_23.04.10_YoungAdultsParents_1.png?resize=160,225 160w, https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2023\/04\/SR_23.04.10_YoungAdultsParents_1.png?resize=320,450 320w\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">However, young adults in much of Europe are even more likely than their U.S. counterparts to live in their parents\u2019 home, according to an analysis of living arrangements in more than two dozen European countries. This is consistent with previous Pew Research Center work that used 2014 data.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In 24 of the 29 European countries studied, <a href=\"https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/eurostat\/databrowser\/view\/ILC_LVPS08__custom_5954993\/default\/table?lang=en\">more than one-in-three adults ages 18 to 34 lived in their parents\u2019 home in 2021<\/a>, according to the statistical agency Eurostat. That includes more than seven-in-ten in Croatia (77%), Greece (73%), Portugal (72%), Serbia (71%) and Italy (71%). On the other end of the spectrum, fewer than one-in-five young adults in the Scandinavian countries of Finland (18%), Sweden (17%) and Denmark (16%) live with their parents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignright size-310-wide\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-10317\" href=\"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/short-reads\/2023\/05\/03\/in-the-u-s-and-abroad-more-young-adults-are-living-with-their-parents\/sr_23-04-10_youngadultsparents_2-png\/\"><img data-dominant-color=\"f2f1ef\" data-has-transparency=\"false\" style=\"--dominant-color: #f2f1ef;\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 310px) 100vw, 310px\" height=\"698\" width=\"310\" src=\"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2023\/04\/SR_23.04.10_YoungAdultsParents_2.png?w=310\" alt=\"A chart showing that in Europe and the U.S., more young men than women live with their parents. \" class=\"wp-image-10317 not-transparent\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2023\/04\/SR_23.04.10_YoungAdultsParents_2.png 620w, https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2023\/04\/SR_23.04.10_YoungAdultsParents_2.png?resize=133,300 133w, https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2023\/04\/SR_23.04.10_YoungAdultsParents_2.png?resize=455,1024 455w, https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2023\/04\/SR_23.04.10_YoungAdultsParents_2.png?resize=180,405 180w, https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2023\/04\/SR_23.04.10_YoungAdultsParents_2.png?resize=200,450 200w, https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2023\/04\/SR_23.04.10_YoungAdultsParents_2.png?resize=260,585 260w, https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2023\/04\/SR_23.04.10_YoungAdultsParents_2.png?resize=310,698 310w, https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2023\/04\/SR_23.04.10_YoungAdultsParents_2.png?resize=420,946 420w, https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2023\/04\/SR_23.04.10_YoungAdultsParents_2.png?resize=142,320 142w, https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2023\/04\/SR_23.04.10_YoungAdultsParents_2.png?resize=284,640 284w\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Overall, countries in southern and eastern Europe tend to have higher rates of young adults living in their parents\u2019 home than countries in northern and western Europe, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.demographic-research.org\/volumes\/vol45\/2\/45-2.pdf\">a difference that may reflect both cultural factors<\/a>, such as social norms and family ties, and structural factors, such as housing markets and welfare systems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Both in the United States and Europe, young men are more likely than young women to live in their parents\u2019 home. In 2021, 36% of young men in the U.S. lived in their parents\u2019 home, compared with 30% of young women. The same pattern appears in every European country studied.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In a handful of European countries, including Ireland and Denmark, the gender difference is comparable to that in the U.S. However, in 16 European countries analyzed, the share of young men living in their parents&#8217; home is more than 10 percentage points higher than the share for young women. 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