Shared households increase 11.4% in U.S.: Census
Source: Market Watch
CHICAGO (MarketWatch)-- A U.S. Census Bureau report released Wednesday shows shared households increased 11.4% from 2007 to 2010. Shared households accounted for 18.7% of all households in 2010, compared with 17% in 2007. In 2010 there were 22 million shared households -- households with an "additional" adult, a person 18 or older not enrolled in school and who is neither the householder nor the spouse or partner of the householder. Compared with 27.7% of all adults in 2007, 30.1% of all adults lived in shared households in 2010. Official poverty rates for shared households were lower than for other households, while personal poverty rates of the householders were higher than householders not living in shared householders. 45.9% of additional adults in shared households had personal incomes below their poverty thresholds. "The higher personal poverty rates for adults heading shared households suggests that this group has fewer individual resources than their counterparts," said report co-author Laryssa Mykyta, a Census Bureau poverty statistics branch analyst.
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Census Bureau: Millions more Americans shared households in face of recession
Millions of economically pressed Americans cushioned themselves against the recession by doubling up in houses and apartments, according to a Census Bureau report released Wednesday.
The number of adults sharing households with family members or other individuals jumped 11.4 percent between 2007 and 2010, the report said.
Overall, such living arrangements accounted for 22 million households in 2010 — or 18.7 percent of all U.S. households, compared with 17 percent in 2007.
Young adults were the most likely to double up, the report said, accounting for more than half of those who moved in with family members or friends. Between 2007 and 2010, the number of adult children who lived in their parents’ homes increased by 1.2 million to 15.8 million.
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