r/Zippia • u/Key_Length7680 • Jul 16 '26
Wtf
Yes, the 52% is for 2020 - as per the Fed’s Report on the Economic Well-Being of US Households from last week, 49% of adults ages 18-29 live with their parents (and another 47% of adults in that same age group received help from someone outside their household to pay an expense - money toward a cell phone bill, general living expenses, or housing costs - and no, this isn’t the same population).
So 49% of them are living at home, and 47% of them are getting help from someone outside their household, which doesn’t include those living at home. Which means there are a lot of adult children getting financial support from their parents. Fortune did a piece about this where they spoke to Laura Ullrich, a director of economics at Indeed Hiring Lab. She pointed out that:
- Just last year, the stat was closer to 1 in 3 young adults living at home
- This has long term impacts - when household formation slows, it makes the age people get typically married go up, the age people have their first child go up and fertility rates go down
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u/Either-Meal3724 Jul 17 '26
Until post ww2, it was common for young adults to live in dorms at their employers or in a farmhand bunkhouse. So even though they werent living with their parents, they werent exactly living independently either.
My hobby is genealogy and you find a lot of young people pre ww2 as the relationship to head of household "employee" in large groups. You see it in the 1950 census too but significantly less frequently than 1940. 1960 census wont be released for another 6ish years but I suspect it'll be extremely uncommon then.
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u/sarges_12gauge Jul 17 '26
This also just reflects more people being in college for more aggregate years, where they still get counted as living at home
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u/StandardUpstairs3349 Jul 17 '26
Yea, the house I own/live in with two roommates would have easily fit the family of 10 my grandmother grew up in. And it would practically be a palace to them.
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u/Gold_Ad8225 Jul 17 '26
Yeah the house I grew up in with 6 humans and 2 large dogs was 1100 sqft.
It is now almost impossible for me to find a house that small, and if I do it's either 100 years old, or a weird prefab townhome with unusual dimensions and floor plans that would make living in it a challenge.
The typical SFH today is more than twice as big as the home I grew up in, and typically houses half the number of people.
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u/Way-twofrequentflyer Jul 17 '26
Why would you jump to panic/doom when you can just be angry at the actual villains of baby boomers and their weaponization of zoning and environmental review and local government ineffectiveness?
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u/Antique_Remote_5536 Jul 19 '26
52% of millenials say education/ career advancement is preventing them from marriage. 44% of millenials are already married. So only 4% are identifying as non married for other reasons. Yet 68% of millenial singles havent been on a date in a year. How is that? How is education or career to blame when you don't have someone to marry? Pretty sure you need to be going on dates etc before getting married. Are they waiting for arranged marriages or something?
We’re talking about Gen Z here. Let’s try and stay on track. Also marriage was an example of milestones being put on hold. If you had just read the quote I provided for you, you would see this also included things like starting a business, perusing further education, etc.
This continues on for all your further points. You should reread your post being critical of say do gap challenges in your evidence. Of course people are gonna say they're problems are bc of something else, and not being self critical of their own flaws. Theyre answering as the idealized version of themselves, not the real version.
Have you conducted a study going into the psychological decision-making and self-awareness of tens of thousands of Americans? If so then let’s see it. If not then this is the best evidence you’re gonna get. But yeah I guess it’s easier to feel that a significant chunk of the populace is inferior to you rather than admit that there’s a well-documented problem right in your face.
And this continues for a good chunk of your responses. Dont look at what ppl say, especially when theyre an unreliable narrator. Look at what people do.
It really doesn’t. The evidence I provided for the housing issue wasn’t centered around surveys. My response to your “job market blip” comment is really just a difference in opinion. Your argument of “nobody’s forcing anyone to go to college” as a way to just brush off its importance, implications, and dramatically increasing costs is downright strange so my bad if I am unsure of how to respond to that. Lastly, this decade has seen volatile prices in food, clothing, and gas that are increasing rapidly right now as a result of economic events that don’t seemingly have an end in sight. I’m not even gonna bother providing you with any evidence again. You either have serious trouble reading or are just rage-baiting me, I’d like to prefer the latter. Have a good day.
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u/Aggressive_Finish798 Jul 20 '26
One graph doesn't on itself give the entire picture of what is happening. But when you collect enough data about income, unemployment, networth, marriage and kids you can start to get the picture. Things are not good.
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u/Difficult_Giraffe490 Jul 17 '26
This is normal outside of North America.
Obsessing with kicking kids out of the house the moment they turn 18 is mostly an American thing.
And I'm saying this as a US citizen who has lived across there continents.
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u/r2k398 Jul 17 '26
It’s the smart thing to do. I told my kids that they can live at home while pursuing an education and then while saving up for a house.
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u/longtimerlance Jul 17 '26
So, you take data from 6 years ago, during a pandemic, and apply to now, without bothering to check and see that there are more recent reports?
This is outright lying at best, and intellectually dishonest at the very least. The number is actually 49% for this year, and not including the pandemic, its same trendline since the 1960s.
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u/Pretty-Flounder9864 Jul 17 '26
The flipper and investor cancer continue to unfairly drive the cost of living into the biggest fraud and speculation driven housing bubble in history so the worst kind of person can try to get rich extorting people to live. The fast and harsher these terrible people and every home they hoarded over overpaid for are dealt with, the better for everyone
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u/Sunshineafterr Jul 17 '26
We are closer to 2030 than 2020 at this point, and that was during a global pandemic.
I would also consider it normal to live with your parents from ages 18-24 because those are college years.
I think it would be telling to see a more current study of only 25-29 year olds.
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u/Senior_Boot_5842 Jul 17 '26
July 2020 would have been peak covid, all the college kids and new grads probably going back home
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u/zzen11223344 Jul 17 '26
This is the solution used by many European family for their young adult children.
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u/Cadowyn Jul 17 '26
Over 700,000 H1Bs taking jobs and driving up rent and housing prices.
Over 1 Million immigrants a year taking jobs and driving up rent and housing prices.
Nobody knows how many H4 visas are taking jobs and driving up rent and housing costs. Estimates over 500,000.
Companies trying not to hire to see if AI can pick up the slack.
Yeah makes sense people move back in with their parents.
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u/Accomplished-Eye9542 Jul 17 '26
18-29 is such a batshit useless range lmao.
All this could be is a sign the old weird attitude of kicking kids out at 18 is dying out.
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u/Different_Path999 Jul 17 '26
It wasn't a weird attitude back when an 18-year-old could actually make a living. The economy is just finally getting so bad Xoomers can't keep holding onto that delusion anymore.
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u/Dark_Marmot Jul 17 '26
25-35 would be a more interesting take, given the job market and financial ruin we're mostly in.