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There are also more single person households now[0], and the average household size has decreased by about 15%.[1]

[0] https://www.statista.com/statistics/242189/disitribution-of-...

[1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/183657/average-size-of-a...

There are also more two-person households, so perhaps part of the change is young people not living with their parents for so long? Or perhaps it is old people living alone. I don’t think I have very good priors about this. I think the kind of people I know are not going to be a great cross section of US society (and I suspect this is true for basically anyone too).

It's actually the opposite, we are at an all time high for young people living with their parents, for longer.

Approximately 50 percent of young adults 18 - 29 live with their family now[0].

Initially that was thought to be a transient externality of the pandemic but it seems to be sticking[1] thanks to the outfall of the bull market crashing.

[0]https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2020/09/04/a-majority-...

[1]https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2022/07/20/young-adult...

Which entirely disqualifies the proposed explanation of the original comment, which considered household income. thus bundling the parents and children's income together.

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