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Characteristic | Percent who moved out at least once |
---|---|
Total |
90.2 |
Gender |
|
Men |
88.0 |
Women |
92.4 |
Race or ethnic group |
|
White |
93.3 |
Black |
85.7 |
Hispanic or Latino |
81.6 |
Educational attainment at age 27 |
|
Less than high school diploma |
85.5 |
GED |
91.3 |
High school diploma |
86.8 |
Some college |
89.7 |
Bachelor's degree or higher |
94.1 |
Young women were more likely to move out than were young men (92 percent compared with 88 percent).
Whites were more likely to move out than Blacks or Hispanics. Over 93 percent of Whites had moved away from home at least once by age 27, compared with 86 percent of Blacks and 82 percent of Hispanic or Latino young adults.
Young adults with more education typically left their parents' homes at higher rates. The exception was young adults with General Educational Development (GED) credentials, who were more likely to move out than were young adults with some college.
For many young adults, moving out was not permanent. Among those who moved out, over half moved back at some point before reaching age 27.
These data are from the National Longitudinal Surveys program. For more information, see “Independence for young millennials: moving out and boomeranging back” in the Monthly Labor Review (December 2014).
Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department of Labor, The Economics Daily, 90 percent of young adults moved away from home by age 27 at https://www.bls.gov/opub/ted/2015/90-percent-of-young-adults-moved-away-from-home-by-age-27.htm (visited November 06, 2024).