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YOUNG ADULTS AGES 25-34 LIVING WITH
ROOMMATES/HOUSEMATES/NONRELATIVES
SHARE, 2016
5% OR LESS
>5% - 7%
>7% - 9%
9% OR HIGHER
Source: 2016 American Community Survey, NAHB Estimates
The spatial analysis provides sharers contains several states with
additional insights into house the above average headship rates,
sharing arrangements of young such as Colorado and Oregon,
adults. The list of states with the 1 in 3 where 11% of young adults are house
largest segments of house sharers sharers. District of Columbia, known
includes states with some of the Young Adults as a city of transients, stands out for
most expensive housing markets, live with housing the nation’s highest share
such as California, Hawaii, and New of 25-34 year old house/roommates
York – where one in ten 25-34 year parents, at 20%. At the same time, due to its
olds are sharing their homes (and relatively stable job market, DC’s
presumably, expensive housing relatives headship rates are well above the
costs) with unrelated roommates or nation’s average, with 45% of young
housemates. These states also stand or share adults leading their own households.
out for having some of the lowest housing with North Dakota simultaneously
headship rates (the share of young registers the highest headship
adults who are household heads) in nonrelatives rate of 54% and one of the highest
the nation. segments of house sharers, 9%,
At the same time, the list of states among young adults.
with the largest segments of house NAHB JULY 2018
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