Young Americans Struggle to Hit ‘Adult’ Milestones
Pew study finds a lower percentage of 25-year-olds live on their own compared to 1980.
It’s taking young Americans longer to move out and get married these days.
In 2021, 68% of 25-year-olds were living outside their parents’ home, 22% were married and 17% had a child, according to a Pew Research Center analysis of the most recently available Census Bureau data. In 1980, 84% were living on their own, 63% were married and 39% had a child, the report said.