Realtor.com: Record Number of Young Adults Living With Parents

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Realtor.com, Santa Clara, Calif., found 25.2 million adults under 35 were living with their parents in 2025, more than any other point on record.

Numerically, that’s more young adults living with their parents than during the COVID-19 pandemic. By share, 33% of young adults are living at home, just below the 33.6% high in 2020.

The majority–70%–are employed. The overwhelming majority are single–92% of adults living with their parents in 2025 have never been married. Men slightly outnumber women, but that gap is narrowing.

Broken down more specifically by age, 57.6% of 18-24-year-olds were living at home in 2025. While that’s not necessarily surprising–many of those individuals would be in college–it’s up from 54.6% in 2019 and 52.1% in 2000. And nearly half (49.3%) of 22-year-olds, who would probably have graduated or be near graduating, live with their parents. That’s up from 46.1% before the pandemic.

By age 24, the co-residence share is 35.2%, up significantly from 29.6% in 2019.

About one in five adults aged 25-29 live with their parents. That’s up nearly 6 percentage points from 2000, but the rate for this age group has also fallen from recent highs.

Adults aged 30-34 see 12.7% of their population living with parents. That rate has nearly doubled since 2000, when just 7.1% lived with parents. Pre-pandemic, the rate stood at 11.4%.

There are two distinct points in time where the percentage of young adults living at their parents’ home spiked. The first was the Great Recession; the second was the COVID-19 pandemic. In both cases, there was a jump in young adults living with parents, followed by only a partial retreat when conditions improved.

“The adults living with their parents today are largely employed, and many hold college degrees. What’s holding them back isn’t a lack of qualifications, but rather, at least in part, a lack of housing they can actually afford,” said Hannah Jones, senior economist at Realtor.com. “This is a supply story, not an employment story.”