Long c-run Gender Difference in Living at Home % living at home of parent(s)
A Pew Research Center analysis of government data published earlier this month found that 36% of the nation’s young adults ages 18 to 31 — the so-called Millennial generation — were living in their parents’ home in 2012. This was the highest share in at least four decades and represented a slow but steady increase over the 32% of their same-aged counterparts who were living at home prior to the Great Recession in 2007.
The growing gender parity in likelihood of residing at home is especially pronounced among 18- to 24-year-olds: 60% of men and 52% of women in that age group lived at home in 2012, an 8-percentage-point gap. In 1968, 59% of male 18- to 24-year-olds, but only 42% of females lived at home: a difference of 17 percentage points.
Long c-run Gender Difference in Living at Home  | % living at home of parent(s)  | 70%  | Male, ages 18-24  | 60  | 50  | Female, ages .1.8-24  | 40  | 30  | Malexages 25-31  | 20  | 10  | Female, ages 25-31  | a  | 1968 1973 1978 1983 1988 1993 1998 2003 2008 2012  | Notes: "Living Ild at regardless home refers to an adultwho is the child or stepchild ofthe head of  | the househo Ild regardless ofthe a dult's marital status  | Source: Pew Research Center Samp tabulations ofMarch Current Population Survey (CPS)  | Integrated Public Use Micro Samp les  | PEW RESEARCH CENTER 