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What do modern American households look like?

OMG...what the hell are those "other" people doing? Eating their young? Sorry they're not married. Eating someone else's young!


What do modern American households look like?

In 1960, over 44% of American households included married parents with children, while just over 13% were single with no children. Today, single-person households and married couples without children outnumber married-parent households. How else have American households changed, and how have they stayed the same?



Percentage of household types

In 2023, more than half of American households were childless: 29.4% were married couples without children. The proportion of households made up of married people without children has ranged between 28% and 31% since 1960.


Twenty-nine percent of households were single people without kids, up from 13.1% in 1960.


The number of married households without children has grown alongside the US population. There were 38.7 million married, childless households in 2023, up 143% from 1960. During the same period, the country’s population grew by 88%.


More than a quarter of households had parents and children, including 17.9% married-parent households and 7.4% single-parent households.

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