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America Counts: Stories Behind the Numbers
How Many Young and Older Adults Lived Alone?
Almost 1 in 10 young adults ages 18-34 and nearly 3 in 10 adults 65 or older lived alone in 2022, according to a new U.S. Census Bureau report.
The report provides a demographic profile of the households and living arrangements of Americans and how they have changed over time by sex and across age groups.
The most common living arrangement among 18- to 24-year-olds in 2022 was living in a parent?s home.
More than half of adult men and women in that age group lived in a parental home. In this survey, young adults living in college dorms are counted as living in their parents? home.
Continue reading to learn more about the living arrangements of young adults in the past and present.?
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