Obama's America: Record Levels Of 'Multi-Generational Living'

Otherwise known as living at home in your 30's

America's elderly are no longer the most likely group to be living with another generation, thanks to the continued surge of 25-34 year olds who are increasingly moving back in with their parents or another relative.

A Pew study released Thursday shows that nearly one in five Americans lived with a member of another generation in 2012, an all-time high. A record 57 million Americans, or 18.1 percent of the adult population, lived with someone who was a member of a different generation, with adults aged 25-34 driving the growth as a "major component" of the trend.

As the study noted, this means that young adults have now usurped seniors as the most prevalent members of multi-generational households:

Historically, the nation’s oldest Americans have been the age group most likely to live in multi-generational households. But in recent years, younger adults have surpassed older adults in this regard. In 2012, 22.7% of adults ages 85 and older lived in a multi-generational household, just shy of the 23.6% of adults ages 25 to 34 in the same situation.

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