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Young Adults Living With Parents - Animated YouTube Video

Released: 29 May 2012

It shows:

  • 1.8 million men and 1.1 million women aged between 20 and 34 were living with their parents in 2011
    This represents an increase of 20 per cent, or almost half a million, since 1997.

  • In 2011 one in three men and one in six women aged 20 to 34 were living with their parents.

  • The percentage of young adults who were living with their parents in 2011 varies across the UK, from 20 per cent in London to 35 per cent in Northern Ireland.

Source: Office for National Statistics

Background notes

  1. Details of the policy governing the release of new data are available by visiting www.statisticsauthority.gov.uk/assessment/code-of-practice/index.html or from the Media Relations Office email: media.relations@ons.gsi.gov.uk

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