Millennial Americans more likely to be single, smarter

married. One in eight had already been married and divorced. In 2015, just two in five millennials were married, and only 7 percent had been divorced.

Baby boomers’ eagerness to get married meant they were far more likely than today’s young people to live on their own. Ander- son looked at the share of each generation living inde- pendently, either as heads of their own household or in married couples.

The chance that Americans in their late 20s and early 30s live with parents or grandparents has more than doubled. In 1980, just 9 percent of 25- to 34-yearolds were doing so. In 2015, 22 percent lived with parents or grandparents.

Millennials are also less likely than boomers to be living with children-and to be homeowners.

It’s easy to look at these figures and say millennials are lagging behind their boomer parents. However, even as young Americans delay marriage, children and homeownership, they’re ahead of their parents by one measure: education.

There’s also no sign that young people today are lazier than three decades ago. In 1980, 74 percent of baby boomers reported that they had worked in the past week, the Census data show. In 2015, slightly more millennials, 77 percent, said they had worked in the past week.

Score another one for millennials.