Almost five million adults living at home with parents, latest figures show

The ONS said the figures for England and Wales suggested a continuing trend rather than being as a result of the coronavirus pandemic.

Almost five million adults were living at home with their parents at the time of Census 2021 (PA) (PA Archive)

Almost five million adults in England and Wales were living at home with their parents during the latest census, including more than one in 10 people in their early 30s.

Almost a quarter of families had an adult child living in the household during Census 2021, in what the Office for National Statistics (ONS) described as a “continuing trend” rather than as a result of the coronavirus pandemic which was ongoing at the time.

Around 4.9 million adults lived with their parents at that time, a rise of 14.7% from around 4.2 million a decade previously, the latest statistics showed.