The difference between a 23 year old and a 30 year old is pretty big…
Correlates pretty well to areas people have to leave to find a job because there is very little industry there.
Source: 2023 American Community Survey Microdata accessed via IPUMS USA
Citation: *IPUMS USA, University of Minnesota,* [*www.ipums.org*](http://www.ipums.org)
PUMA stands for Public Use Microdata Area. PUMAs are areas designated by the Census Bureau for statistical reporting. They each have between 100k and 200k residents, don’t cross state lines, and follow county and city boundaries when possible. Their big advantage over county maps is letting us see much more detail in urban areas, but it does come at the cost of being able to present all the information in one image.
lol I thought it said “with a living parent” and was confused for a while, i need my coffee still
Interesting inclusion of PR but none of the other US territories. Also interesting that the one included US territory was omitted from the top 5 by making it top 5 *states.*
These numbers are really eye opening. I wonder where this’ll trend in a few years. These prices just ain’t right. Thanks BlackRock…
Thanks for including Puerto Rico! Multi-generational houses is pretty common here, and a large percentage of “single family homes” actually contain separate apartments because with flat roofed concrete structures it’s much easier to add a 2nd or 3rd story after the initial construction.
Hmm so my county in central NY is very light colored compared to the surrounding counties. The cost of living is very high here. But my guess is that because there is a huge student population here, most grad students are between 23-30 and aren’t living with their parents at college, that must be why it’s so low.
I’m guessing south Texas is due to the large Hispanic community where it is very normal to stay with family until you move to your marital home?
Allston-Brighton (neighborhoods of Boston) make sense for the lowest rate. They’re essentially just filled with college kids living in apartments.
There are some lighter than the surrounding average spots with individual counties that correlate to colleges… and also to the “more opportunities for young people.”
For example, Dane county (that blip in southern Wisconsin) has a university. A *lot* of the 23 year olds in Dane county are living in dorms. Boise Idaho is another that stands out.
The tangent to that is that the surrounding areas may be slightly darker because of the same – college students commuting from their parents’ home because its cheaper than the dorms.
Moving back in with my mom made everything easier for both households. We all pay less for food, utilities, etc. and we all take care of different aspects of the space. My mom doesn’t have much of a retirement plan, but has land. I have a place to build a home for my family, I get to take care of my aging mother, and life is easier for everyone. Bonus, we all get along pretty well. (My mom, her husband, me, my significant other and all our dogs) Plus, since we’ve moved back our family business has been making a bunch more money, because we have more hands covering more bases making everything a lot easier for everyone and more money. In todays economy I feel very blessed to have an opportunity to live on beautiful land, be able to spend time with my mother before I can’t anymore and also build a beautiful life with her and we get to work together to figure out how to survive the tough times ahead. I don’t feel like I lost anything really. I’ve gained a lot more personal free time, a lot less stress, and I get to create something with people I care about. I feel blessed.
This also shows where “parents” are likely to live, in the region map. Like I know exactly why Seattle (Lake Union) is so low: It’s because all the kids with parents are gone, and it’s mostly just Amazon employees now. I bet the other areas with low rates are similar. Likewise, I expect the areas where the rates are really high are probably mostly HCOL areas that people like to retire near.
It’s nice to see more data broken down by county lately.
For this kind of data, I’d like to see it compared to cost of living/housing. It would likely be a wash.
is this one of those weird occasions where the map isn’t just a population map?
overlap a rent cost map on top
I moved out my parents home when I was 24, back in 2018. What’s crazy is since then apartment prices have skyrocketed, and apartments were still pricy in 2018. I had a roommate and split the rent to $800 a month, that same apartment even when split 50/50 is now 1,700.
The richest area in Tennessee (Williamson County) has the highest percentage of adults living at home.
I would have been there til age 40 in order to save for a house. Instead i bought a tiny old condo for the price of a house 10 years ago
Highly correlated to housing prices. Thank you, CA selfish NIMBYs who claim to be liberal and progressive.
Surprised it’s this low. I still lived at home at 30 despite making $75k. It was either that or pay $1500 to live with roommates. That just wasn’t enough money to live alone unless you live paycheck to paycheck in a VHCOL area.
Not too surprising the rates are higher where the cost of living is also significantly higher
why do you remove the rivers from city views?? its a lot harder to discern distinct neighborhoods and regions.
Are the bottom five PUMAs all “student digs” areas? Where there aren’t a high proportion of parents of 23-30 year olds to begin with? Because that’s how I’d characterize the Boston one.
I don’t think this accounts for multigenerational homes, which are common for immigrants or 1st generation people who take care of their parents after buying their own home, and for asians and Hispanics. Currently, this simply shows people who have parents with them, and it doesn’t necessarily mean anything for the cost of living or other economic factors.
I’d be interested in the 30-40 demo
The state level rates show housing costs and job availability. The detailed geographic breakdown really just emphasizes the totally expected differences between neighborhoods.
Within the metros, areas with low rates are places like college campuses and low-end apartment complexes. Of course, those places have relatively few parents of 23-30 year olds.
The areas with the highest rates (darkest on the detail maps) are suburbs with McMansion style houses, where the homeowners are older and affluent.
If anything, offspring of affluent suburban families are probably *more* likely (than the metro average) to be able to afford their own housing. The rates are high because the 23-30s with their own housing have all left that neighborhood, and those (few?) who remain are all living with parents.
Terrifying – I wonder if there is correlation to states with high property tax.
I *could* afford to move out and get a “luxury” single-bedroom appt in my MCOL city, but not doing so for the past eight years has allowed me to not only *save* $100K, but invest it during the greatest bull-market of our generation.
and politicians are wondering why the birth rates ale plummeling. Well, I’m sorry, but I’m not going to make babies while my mother is living in the next room.
I think a telling statistic for some states would be how many young people left the state for greener pastures. So sure North Dakota might have a low percent staying at home but how many of those joined the military or moved ?
That must be why we won’t let Puerto Rico in as a state, they have family values and weren’t sold the bullshit “individualism” scam.
why is massachusetts out in the ocean?
One thing to keep in mind is that there are lots of cultures where people live with their parents until they marry, which tend to be more prevalent among immigrants/1st gen Americans, which tend to be more prevalent in big cities.
Of course costs of living are also very high in those areas, so it’s not all one or the other.
lol Long Island for 2/5! I would note that there are several good commuter colleges and extreme lack of apartments and cheap rentals.
Lots of rural. Could that be because of multi-generational farms?
I wish multi-generational living didn’t have such a stigma attached in the US. In many cultures it is the norm.
![[OC] Portion of 23-30 Year Olds Living With a Parent in the US](https://www.europesays.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/g5sy5ea3e2yf1-1080x1024.jpg)
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The difference between a 23 year old and a 30 year old is pretty big…
Correlates pretty well to areas people have to leave to find a job because there is very little industry there.
Source: 2023 American Community Survey Microdata accessed via IPUMS USA
Citation: *IPUMS USA, University of Minnesota,* [*www.ipums.org*](http://www.ipums.org)
Tools: R (packages: dplyr, ggplot2, sf, usmap, tools, ggfx, grid, scales, cowplot, showtext, sysfonts)
You may be wondering what a PUMA is…
PUMA stands for Public Use Microdata Area. PUMAs are areas designated by the Census Bureau for statistical reporting. They each have between 100k and 200k residents, don’t cross state lines, and follow county and city boundaries when possible. Their big advantage over county maps is letting us see much more detail in urban areas, but it does come at the cost of being able to present all the information in one image.
lol I thought it said “with a living parent” and was confused for a while, i need my coffee still
Interesting inclusion of PR but none of the other US territories. Also interesting that the one included US territory was omitted from the top 5 by making it top 5 *states.*
These numbers are really eye opening. I wonder where this’ll trend in a few years. These prices just ain’t right. Thanks BlackRock…
Thanks for including Puerto Rico! Multi-generational houses is pretty common here, and a large percentage of “single family homes” actually contain separate apartments because with flat roofed concrete structures it’s much easier to add a 2nd or 3rd story after the initial construction.
Hmm so my county in central NY is very light colored compared to the surrounding counties. The cost of living is very high here. But my guess is that because there is a huge student population here, most grad students are between 23-30 and aren’t living with their parents at college, that must be why it’s so low.
I’m guessing south Texas is due to the large Hispanic community where it is very normal to stay with family until you move to your marital home?
Allston-Brighton (neighborhoods of Boston) make sense for the lowest rate. They’re essentially just filled with college kids living in apartments.
There are some lighter than the surrounding average spots with individual counties that correlate to colleges… and also to the “more opportunities for young people.”
For example, Dane county (that blip in southern Wisconsin) has a university. A *lot* of the 23 year olds in Dane county are living in dorms. Boise Idaho is another that stands out.
The tangent to that is that the surrounding areas may be slightly darker because of the same – college students commuting from their parents’ home because its cheaper than the dorms.
Moving back in with my mom made everything easier for both households. We all pay less for food, utilities, etc. and we all take care of different aspects of the space. My mom doesn’t have much of a retirement plan, but has land. I have a place to build a home for my family, I get to take care of my aging mother, and life is easier for everyone. Bonus, we all get along pretty well. (My mom, her husband, me, my significant other and all our dogs) Plus, since we’ve moved back our family business has been making a bunch more money, because we have more hands covering more bases making everything a lot easier for everyone and more money. In todays economy I feel very blessed to have an opportunity to live on beautiful land, be able to spend time with my mother before I can’t anymore and also build a beautiful life with her and we get to work together to figure out how to survive the tough times ahead. I don’t feel like I lost anything really. I’ve gained a lot more personal free time, a lot less stress, and I get to create something with people I care about. I feel blessed.
This also shows where “parents” are likely to live, in the region map. Like I know exactly why Seattle (Lake Union) is so low: It’s because all the kids with parents are gone, and it’s mostly just Amazon employees now. I bet the other areas with low rates are similar. Likewise, I expect the areas where the rates are really high are probably mostly HCOL areas that people like to retire near.
It’s nice to see more data broken down by county lately.
For this kind of data, I’d like to see it compared to cost of living/housing. It would likely be a wash.
is this one of those weird occasions where the map isn’t just a population map?
overlap a rent cost map on top
I moved out my parents home when I was 24, back in 2018. What’s crazy is since then apartment prices have skyrocketed, and apartments were still pricy in 2018. I had a roommate and split the rent to $800 a month, that same apartment even when split 50/50 is now 1,700.
The richest area in Tennessee (Williamson County) has the highest percentage of adults living at home.
I would have been there til age 40 in order to save for a house. Instead i bought a tiny old condo for the price of a house 10 years ago
Highly correlated to housing prices. Thank you, CA selfish NIMBYs who claim to be liberal and progressive.
Surprised it’s this low. I still lived at home at 30 despite making $75k. It was either that or pay $1500 to live with roommates. That just wasn’t enough money to live alone unless you live paycheck to paycheck in a VHCOL area.
Not too surprising the rates are higher where the cost of living is also significantly higher
why do you remove the rivers from city views?? its a lot harder to discern distinct neighborhoods and regions.
Are the bottom five PUMAs all “student digs” areas? Where there aren’t a high proportion of parents of 23-30 year olds to begin with? Because that’s how I’d characterize the Boston one.
I don’t think this accounts for multigenerational homes, which are common for immigrants or 1st generation people who take care of their parents after buying their own home, and for asians and Hispanics. Currently, this simply shows people who have parents with them, and it doesn’t necessarily mean anything for the cost of living or other economic factors.
I’d be interested in the 30-40 demo
The state level rates show housing costs and job availability. The detailed geographic breakdown really just emphasizes the totally expected differences between neighborhoods.
Within the metros, areas with low rates are places like college campuses and low-end apartment complexes. Of course, those places have relatively few parents of 23-30 year olds.
The areas with the highest rates (darkest on the detail maps) are suburbs with McMansion style houses, where the homeowners are older and affluent.
If anything, offspring of affluent suburban families are probably *more* likely (than the metro average) to be able to afford their own housing. The rates are high because the 23-30s with their own housing have all left that neighborhood, and those (few?) who remain are all living with parents.
Terrifying – I wonder if there is correlation to states with high property tax.
I *could* afford to move out and get a “luxury” single-bedroom appt in my MCOL city, but not doing so for the past eight years has allowed me to not only *save* $100K, but invest it during the greatest bull-market of our generation.
and politicians are wondering why the birth rates ale plummeling. Well, I’m sorry, but I’m not going to make babies while my mother is living in the next room.
I think a telling statistic for some states would be how many young people left the state for greener pastures. So sure North Dakota might have a low percent staying at home but how many of those joined the military or moved ?
That must be why we won’t let Puerto Rico in as a state, they have family values and weren’t sold the bullshit “individualism” scam.
why is massachusetts out in the ocean?
One thing to keep in mind is that there are lots of cultures where people live with their parents until they marry, which tend to be more prevalent among immigrants/1st gen Americans, which tend to be more prevalent in big cities.
Of course costs of living are also very high in those areas, so it’s not all one or the other.
lol Long Island for 2/5! I would note that there are several good commuter colleges and extreme lack of apartments and cheap rentals.
Lots of rural. Could that be because of multi-generational farms?
I wish multi-generational living didn’t have such a stigma attached in the US. In many cultures it is the norm.
Now compare that with housing costs.
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