The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social StructureKevin Schurer
“Children stuck living with parents until 24 after house price surge”
“Number of adults living with parents in England and Wales rises by 700,000 in a decade”
These headlines appeared, respectively, in the Daily Telegraph and Guardian newspapers in May 2023. They were prompted by a report issued the Office of National Statistics (ONS) which announced that more families in England and Wales had adult children living with them in 2021 compared with a decade earlier. The total number of adult children living with their parents increased 14.7 percent between 2011 and 2021, from around 4.2 million to around 4.9 million. The average (median) age of adult children living with their parents in 2021 was 24 years, one year older than in 2011.