FP-17-18 Twenty-Five-Year Trends in Living Alone in the U.S., 1990 & 2015
FP-17-18 Twenty-Five-Year Trends in Living Alone in the U.S., 1990 & 2015
Huijing Wu
TLDR
This Family Profile updates an earlier profile on living alone in 2011 to examine trends in living alone between 1990 and 2015, using data from the 1990 census and the 2015 American Community Survey.
Abstract
The share of adults who live alone is on the rise (Vespa, Lewis & Kreider, 2013). In 2011, 13.4% of all adults in the U.S. were living alone, and the majority of those were single women aged 55 and older (FP-13-18). This Family Profile updates an earlier profile (FP-13-18) on living alone in 2011 to examine trends in living alone between 1990 and 2015. We focus on gender differences and marital status by age groups, using data from the 1990 census and the 2015 American Community Survey.