Young Adults in the Parental Home, 2007-2025

Family Profile No. 19, 2026
Author: Morgan Poole

Declining housing affordability and higher unemployment have contributed to increases in young adults’ co-residence with parents in the United States (Acolin, Lin, & Wachter, 2024). Young adult co-residence varies by young adult age, sex, and school enrollment (Acolin, Lin, & Wachter, 2026). Using the Current Population Survey (CPS), we track young adults’ parental co-residence by age, sex, and school enrollment from 2007 through 2025 to understand how residential patterns of young adults have evolved over the past eighteen years. We define parental co-residence as living with one’s own parent(s) or a partner/spouse’s parent(s). This family profile updates previous profiles on parental co-residence using recent data (FP-24-02, FP-21-23, FP-19-04, FP-16-16, FP-13-07, and FP-12-22).

Between 2007 and 2025, the share of young adults co-residing with parents increased across all age groups and peaked in 2020 for 18–24-year-olds and 25–29-year-olds. For 30–34-year-olds, their peak occurred in 2025.

  • Throughout the past 18 years, over half of young adults aged 18-24 lived with their parents. This age group had the largest share living in a parent’s home.
  • The share of 18–24-year-olds living with parents peaked at 59% in 2020. Though slight decreases occurred in 2021 and 2022, it increased from 2023 onward, bringing the rate back up to 58% in 2025.
  • In 2025, more than one in five (21%) young adults aged 25-29 were living in the parental home, up from 17% in 2007.
  • The share of young adults co-residing with parents in the oldest age group (30-34) gradually rose from 8% in 2007 to a peak of 13% in 2025.
Line graph showing increasing parental co-residence among all three age groups from 2007 to 2025, with consistently higher shares among younger adults.

Source: NCFMR analyses of IPUMS-CPS, Current Population Survey, ASEC, 2007-2025

Share of Young Adults Living in the Parental Home by Sex and Age Group
  • Estimates of young adults co-residing with a parent increased across all age groups from 2007 to 2025, regardless of sex. The rates remained higher among males than females.
  • The share of young adults co-residing with a parent was highest among those in the youngest age group.
  • In 2025, 59% of 18–24-year-old males and 57% of 18–24-year-old females were living in a parent’s home compared to 16% of 30–34-year-old males and 11% of 30–34-year-old females.
  • For females, co-residence rates peaked in 2020 for those aged 18-24, in 2024 for those aged 25-29, and in 2025 for those aged 30-34.
  • For males, co-residence peaked at 61% in 2012, 2020, and 2021 among those aged 18-24. Among those aged 30-34, it peaked at 17% in 2020, while those aged 25-29 reached a peak of 28% in both 2018 and 2020.
  • In 2025, the rates of co-residence for 25–29-year-old males and females were 24% vs. 19%, respectively.

Figure 2. Share of Young Adults Living in the Parental Home by Age Group for Males and Females, 2007-2025

Two line graphs showing increasing parental co-residence across all age groups for both males and females, with consistently higher shares among males.
Two line graphs showing increasing parental co-residence across all age groups for both males and females, with consistently higher shares among males.

Source: NCFMR analyses of IPUMS-CPS, Current Population Survey, ASEC, 2007-2025

Share of Young Adults Aged 18-24 Living in the Parental Home by College Enrollment
  • A greater share of young adults aged 18-24 enrolled in college full time co-resided with parents compared to those enrolled part time or not enrolled.
    • Among those enrolled part time and those not in school, the share co-residing with parents increased from 2007 to 2025.
    • Co-residing among those enrolled full time remained relatively stable from 2007 to 2025.
  • The largest year-over-year increase occurred among those enrolled part time from 2022 to 2023, when their co-residing share increased from 55% to 63%.
  • Co-residence peaked among full-time students in 2020, 2021, and 2024 (68%), among part-time students in 2023 (63%), and among those not in school in 2020 and 2021 (49%).
Alt Text: Figure 3. Line graph showing parental co-residence remained relatively stable among full-time college students but increased among part-time students and those not enrolled.

Source: NCFMR analyses of IPUMS-CPS, Current Population Survey, ASEC, 2007-2025

This Family Profile is an update of: FP-24-02, FP-21-23, FP-19-04, FP-16-16, FP-13-07, and FP-12-22

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Data Source:

Flood, S., King, M., Rodgers, R., Ruggles, S., Warren, J. R., Backman, D., Breton, E., Cooper, G., Rivera Drew, J. A., Richards, S., Van Riper, D. (2025). Integrated Public Use Microdata Series, Current Population Survey: Version 13.0 [dataset]. Minneapolis, MN: IPUMS.https://doi.org/10.18128/D030.V13.0

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Payne, K. K. & Copp, J. (2013). Young adults in the parental home and the Great Recession. Family Profiles, FP-13-07. Bowling Green, OH: National Center for Family & Marriage Research. https://www.bgsu.edu/content/dam/BGSU/college-of-arts-and-sciences/NCFMR/documents/FP/FP-13-07.pdf

Suggested Citation:

Poole, M. (2026). Young adults in the parental home, 2007-2025. Family Profiles, FP-26-19. Bowling Green, OH: National Center for Family & Marriage Research. https://doi.org/10.25035/ncfmr/fp-26-19

This project is supported with assistance from Bowling Green State University. From 2007 to 2013, support was also provided by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation. The opinions and conclusions expressed herein are solely those of the author(s) and should not be construed as representing the opinions or policy of any agency of the state or federal government.

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Updated: 10/22/2026 06:40PM