The average American household consisted of 2.51 people in 2023.

Households in the U.S.

As shown in the statistic, the number of people per household has decreased over the past decades.

The U.S. Census Bureau defines a household as follows: “a household includes all the persons who occupy a housing unit as their usual place of residence. A housing unit is a house, an apartment, a mobile home, a group of rooms, or a single room that is occupied (or if vacant, is intended for occupancy) as separate living quarters. Separate living quarters are those in which the occupants live and eat separately from any other persons in the building and which have direct access from outside the building or through a common hall. The occupants may be a single family, one person living alone, two or more families living together, or any other group of related or unrelated persons who share living arrangements. (People not living in households are classified as living in group quarters.).”

The population of the United States has been growing steadily for decades. Since 1960, the number of households more than doubled from 53 million to over 131 million households in 2023.

Most of these households, about 34 percent, are two-person households. The distribution of U.S. households has changed over the years though. The percentage of single-person households has been on the rise since 1970 and made up the second largest proportion of households in the U.S. in 2022, at 28.88 percent.

In concordance with the rise of single-person households, the percentage of family households with own children living in the household has declined since 1970 from 56 percent to 40.26 percent in 2022.

This statistic shows the international migrant stock worldwide as a percentage of the global population from 1990 to 2015. In 2015, the international migrant stock accounted fro 3.3 of the world population.

In 2023, about 36.79 million people were living below the poverty line in the United States, a considerable decrease from the previous year. The number of people living in poverty peaked in 2014, but had been trending downwards until the year of the COVID-19 pandemic began.

Over the past three decades, the number of people living on less than 2.15 U.S. dollars a day in terms of 2017 Purchasing Power Parities has fallen remarkably. Whereas around two billion people lived on less than this amount a day in 1990, the number had fallen to around 711 million by 2022. Although much progress has been made and this figure is falling, this number increased slightly in light of the COVID-19 pandemic, going from around 689 million in 2019 to 762 million in 2020 and 749 million by 2021.

The statistic shows the global share of people living in metropolises from 1950 to 2050. IN 1950, approximately 29 percent of people lived in metropolises.

The number of people living in poverty in the United States varies from state to state. In 2023, around 711,000 residents of Alabama were living below the poverty line. However, California had the most residents living below the poverty line with over 4.56 billion residents living in poverty.

As of 2023, approximately 8.38 million people lived alone in the United Kingdom, an increase of around 34,000 when compared with the previous year when around 8.35 million people were estimated to be living by themselves.

In 2023, about 36.79 million Americans were living below the national poverty line in the United States. Of those Americans, around 4.04 million had a four-year degree or higher. This means they have an income below 100 percent of the national poverty level as defined by the U.S. Census Bureau.

In 2022, nearly two in five of the Generation Alpha were living in low-income households in the United States, with 38 percent of Gen Alpha living in families who earn less annually than twice the value of the federal poverty level. In comparison, only 25 percent of Baby Boomers and 21 percent of Generation X were living in low-income households in that year.

In 2023, approximately 23 percent of New Yorkers lived in apartments, whereas the same was only true for six percent of Wyoming residents. In 2023, New Yorkers had to earn at least 44.77 U.S. dollars per hour to be able to afford the rent for a two-bedroom apartment.

In 2022, more than 1.12 billion people were living in slums worldwide. The urban population living in slums has been increasing steadily since 2000.

Over the past three decades, the number of people living on less than 2.15 U.S. dollars a day in terms of 2017 Purchasing Power Parities either dropped or remained stable across all regions except for Sub-Saharan Africa. On the continent, the number of people living on less than 2.15 U.S. dollars a day increased from 282.2 million in 1990 to nearly 411.15 million in 2019. East Asia & The Pacific saw the most significant poverty reduction, where 20.28 million lived in poverty in 2022 compared to more than one billion in 1990. Even though the absolute number of people living in poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa increased, the share fell during the same period, indicating that there has been poverty reduction in the region as well.

This graph shows the percentage of the French population that lives in a single-person household from 2007 to 2017. Despite some fluctuation during this ten year period there was an overall increase of 1.2 percent. The peak was in 2017 at 16.4 percent.

This statistic presents the percentage of people living alone in France in 2019, distributed by age and by gender. It reveals that 61.7 percent of women aged from 80 years old and more were living alone, whereas 27 percent of men of the same age also lived alone.

Between 2018 and 2022, Americans who identified as Black and Americans who identified as American Indian or Alaska Native were most likely to be living in poverty across all generations in the United States. Within the provided time period, 34 percent of Gen Alpha who were Black lived in families with incomes below the federal poverty line in the United States, followed by 32 percent who were American Indian or Alaska Native.

In 2023, New York led all states in the United States with the highest population residing in public housing units. The number of residents in assisted houses in New York was more than 300,000, much higher than in other states. Other states with a high number of residents in government-aided accommodations included Pennsylvania and Puerto Rico, with both states having around 100,000 public housing residents. In contrast, Vermont recorded the lowest number of residents in public housing units, at just 562. North Dakota, Wyoming, and Idaho were also some of the states that had comparatively low populations, each reporting fewer than 2,500 people.

In 2023, nearly one in five Generation Alpha were living in poverty in the United States, with 16 percent of Gen Alpha living in families with incomes below the federal poverty line. In comparison, only nine percent of Generation X were living in poverty in that year.

The statistic shows the percentage of people living below the poverty line in selected countries in 2012. In Congo, 77.18 percent of people lived below the poverty line in 2012.The proportion of people living in poverty having 1.25 U.S. dollars (PPP) or less per day .

Over the past three decades, the share of the global population living in rural areas decreased continuously. Since 2007, less than half of the world's population lived in rural areas, a share that had dropped to 42.75 percent as of 2023. The urbanization is expected to continue over the coming decades.

This graph shows the reasons why young French people aged between 18 and 30 years old were still living with their parents in 2018. It appears that 40 percent of French young adults were still living with their parents because of the cost of housing and living.