Richard Fry

In 2019, 81% of household heads with a bachelor’s degree or more education had a spouse or partner who was also a college graduate.

A quarter of U.S. adults ages 25 to 34 resided in a multigenerational family household in 2021, up from 9% in 1971.

The gender wage gap is narrower among younger workers nationally, and the gap varies across geographical areas.

Nearly four-in-ten men ages 25 to 29 now live with older relatives.

Among adults 25 and older who have no education beyond high school, more women have left the labor force than men.

Americans relocated less during the COVID-19 outbreak, moving from one residence to another in 2020 at the lowest rate in more than 70 years.

As of the third quarter of 2021, 50.3% of U.S. adults 55 and older said they were out of the labor force due to retirement.

The 2020 census counted 126.8 million occupied households, representing 9% growth over the 116.7 million households counted in the 2010 census.

On key economic outcomes, single adults at prime working age increasingly lag behind those who are married or cohabiting

Adults – particularly men – who are in same-sex marriages have a somewhat different demographic profile from adults in opposite-sex marriages.