Some birds haven’t flown the coop.
Moving out on your own has long been considered a mark of adulthood, but in recent years, young adults are purposely delaying getting their own keys — especially in one state.
According to a new Pew Research Center analysis of government data, California parents are the unlucky ones, as they have the most 25 to 34-year-olds living at home with them.
The main reason young adults say they’re still at home? The economic climate. Figures.
Specifically, the study said Vallejo and Oxnard-Thousand Oaks-Ventura were the two California metropolitan areas with the highest number of Gen Z and millennials at home — each with 33%.
El Centro, California, (32%), Brownsville-Harlingen, Texas, (31%), Riverside- San Bernardino-Ontario, California, (30%) and Merced, California, (30%) followed down the list.
Rounding out the top ten were McAllen-Edinburg-Mission, Texas, Naples-Marco Island, Florida, Racine-Mount Pleasant, Wisconsin, and Port St. Lucie, Florida.
Meanwhile, in Odessa, Texas, Lincoln, Nebraska, Ithaca, New York, and Bloomington, Indiana, only about 3% of young adults lived at home.
While the number of young adults living with their parents skyrocketed during the pandemic, it increased even before the lockdown.
Now, a few years later, from the looks of it — these adult kids aren’t going anywhere.
But who specifically of the two generations is living at home?
Throughout the country, young men are more likely to live at home (20% vs. 15%).
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When accounting for race, White young adults are less likely than their Asian, Hispanic and Black peers to live in a parent’s home, according to the Pew Research Center.
For the most part, the 10 metro areas with the lowest shares of young adults living with their parents have a higher-than-average share of White young adults.
However, these trends aren’t always true.
According to Census data, the population of Vallejo is 32% White, 30% Hispanic, 17% Asian, 12% Black and 9% other.
Meanwhile, the population of Oxnard-Thousand Oaks-Ventura is 45% Hispanic, 41% White, 7% Asian, 2% Black and 5% other.
