![Share (%) of 25 to 29 year-olds living in parent- or grandparent-headed households [OC]](https://www.byteseu.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/eptouc731lmf1-1536x967.png "Share (%) of 25 to 29 year-olds living in parent- or grandparent-headed households [OC]")
As of 2023, ~26% of 25-29 year-olds in the U.S. live in a household headed by a parent or grandparent. Like most housing stats, geography plays a major role.
Source: 2023 American Community Survey Public Use Microdata Sample via tidycensus.
Note: Excludes 25 to 29 year-olds currently attending any form of school (college, graduate school, etc.).
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Posted by SweetYams0
12 Comments
I will never, not ever, understand how any adult can do this *and not lose their fucking minds.*
I hated living with my parents so much that I was practically ready to be homeless rather than live with them. They weren’t even abusive, weren’t toxic. I just hated the idea of being an adult and still living with mommy and daddy *that* much.
Interesting, especially how much it varies in very small areas in the major metros.
I’m most familiar with the SF Bay Area and found the peninsula vs east bay patterns puzzling. Perhaps more newer and bigger houses in the east bay vs. more smaller but more expensive on the peninsula? Also, immigrant demographics that often favor certain communities and may have higher rates of multigenerational households?
Also, surprisingly low rate in the middle America rural areas, but that could be a combination of lower housing costs, higher marriage rates, etc.
TLDR: I gotta a feeling there is a lot of local factors and nuances underlying these data.
In other words. Where housing is more expensive children live with their parents longer… not really surprising.
multnomah county being super low is surprising
What is the role of geography beyond correlation?
Population, economy and culture would seem to have more of a role.
I think we might have just lived in a blip of society because this was always commonplace throughout history and still is in many parts of the world.
Bring back the triple-decker. It gives everyone some privacy while still have convenience and economic benefits of shared household.
I’m honestly shocked it’s not higher. With housing as expensive as it is I feel like we are going to see this normalized a lot more
This is very normal in many, many cultures around the world.
TIL – if you live somewhere that’s very expensive or very poor, you are more likely too live with the elders.
11% of abled bodied men are not working. In the 1960s, it was 3%. My working girlfriends are saying they have a hard time finding good men to date that have jobs. Thier biological clocks are ticking and want to start families.
https://bipartisanpolicy.org/blog/why-some-prime-age-men-are-out-of-work/
Wow, the Austin area is a glaring exception to the general pattern near metro areas.
Time to get these numbers up! These are rookie numbers!
Seriously, allowing adult children to live with you for as long as possible is highly normal in the rest of the world, and is one of the single greatest contributors to generational wealth that everyone objectively has access to. The dynamic to kick out kids when they turn 18 in the US was nearly institutionalized by corporate greed; landlords that want forced tenants, corporations that want their labor subsidized by the youth, who can’t fight for higher wages.
Not my kids, not fucking happening. I’m not subsidizing some rich ass-hole with the best years of their lives.