Tag Archives: Census Shows Jump in Shared Households

More people are packing into one home together. Looking back on the recession, the U.S. Census Bureau finds the number of shared households grew by 11.4 percent from 2007 to 2010. Meanwhile, total households grew by a modest 1.3 percent. “Although reasons for household sharing are not discernible from the survey, our analysis suggests that adults and families coped with challenging economic circumstances over the course of the recession by joining households or combining households with other individuals or families,” said Laryssa Mykyta, a Census Bureau analyst and co-author of […]