Texas study finds 1 in 3 young adults now live with parents in US
1 in 3 adults under 35 live with parents—or is it the other way around?
By Ahmed Humble,
Senior Trending Reporter
June 27, 2026
It was once widely assumed that adulthood came with a fairly straightforward milestone: moving out of your parents' house. But a new report suggests that reality has changed, and Houston may be one of the places where the trend is more complex than it appears.
Researchers at Realtor.com found roughly one in three adults under the age of 35 now lives with a parent or parents, a figure that has remained near record highs since the COVID-19 pandemic and shows little sign of falling.
Houston's housing market may make the trend more complicated than the national numbers suggest.
"On the one hand, housing is more affordable here compared to other areas around the country (especially larger cities)," Daniel Potter, director of the Houston Population Research Center at Rice University's Kinder Institute for Urban Research, told Chron in a statement. "Because of that relative affordability, it might be expected that the number of adult children living at home with parents is lower."
https://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/article/texas-young-adults-living-with-parents-22322539.php
