MILLENNIALS IN THE U.S.

Millennials are the largest living generation by population size (79.8 million in 2016).

Many millennials still live under their parents’ roof or are in a college dorm or some other shared living situation. As of 2016, millennials headed only 28 million households, many fewer than were headed by Generation X (ages 36 to 51) or Baby Boomers (ages 52 to 70).

Last year, millennials headed 18.4 million of the estimated 45.9 million households that rent their home, the largest of any group.

Millennial-run households represent the largest group of households living in poverty.

Millennials are less likely than previous generations of young adults to be married. Only 42 percent of 25- to 35-yearolds were married and living with their spouse in 2016. By comparison, 82 percent of 25- to 35-year-olds were married and living with their spouse in 1963.

Millennials are less likely to own a house. 56 percent of early Baby Boomer 25- to 35-year-olds lived in owner-occupied housing in 1981, where only 37 percent of millennials lived in such housing in 2016.

In 2016, 56 percent of 25- to 35-year-olds were childless, compared to fewer than half of the two generations before them.

Millennials are more racially and ethnically diverse than the other adult generations.

Millennial workers are just as likely to stick with their employers as their older counterparts in Generation X were when they were young adults. And among the college-educated, millennials have longer track records with their employers than Generation X workers did in 2000 when they were the same age as today’s millennials.

In 2016, only 20 percent of 25- to 35-year-olds reported having lived at a different address one year earlier. One-year migration rates were much higher for older generations when they were the same age.