Living with parents at 25 to 34 across the EU

Name: Living with parents at 25 to 34 across the EU, 2025
Creator: Civitascope
Published: 2026-10-28T15:13:40+00:00
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Topic: Housing

In Croatia, 62.3% of people aged 25 to 34 live with their parents, against 3.9% in Denmark.

In 2025, 30.1% of people aged 25 to 34 in the EU lived in their parents' household. Students living away and others who still belong to their parents' household count too.

Figures for:: 2025.
Covers:: the time of the survey.
New data:: once a year.
Dataset updated:: 20 October 2026.

Published 28 October 2026, updated 6 November 2026

27 / 27 EU countries ranked

The ranking

In 2025, the share of people aged 25 to 34 who live with their parents was highest in Croatia, at 62.3%, and lowest in Denmark, at 3.9%.

Share of people aged 25 to 34 who live with their parents, %

2025 · aged 25 to 34

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EU, 30.1 %

Rank 1: Croatia, 62.3 %

Rank 2: Greece, 56.3 %

Rank 3: Slovakia, 54.3 %

Rank 4: Poland, 51.0 %

Rank 5: Italy, 50.7 %

Rank 6: Spain, 50.2 %

Rank 7: Cyprus, 42.9 %

Rank 8: Bulgaria, 42.7 %

Rank 9: Portugal, 42.1 %

Rank 10: Slovenia, 39.9 %

Rank 11: Ireland, 38.4 %

Rank 12: Malta, 37.1 %

Rank 13: Romania, 36.7 %

Rank 14: Hungary, 34.0 %

Rank 15: Latvia, 30.0 %

Rank 16: Belgium, 25.1 %

Rank 17: Luxembourg, 23.4 %

Rank 18: Czechia, 22.3 %

Rank 19: Austria, 16.9 %

Rank 20: Lithuania, 16.2 %

Rank 21: France, 14.8 %

Rank 22: Estonia, 14.4 %

Rank 23: Germany, 13.5 %

Rank 24: Netherlands, 10.9 %

Rank 25: Sweden, 7.5 %

Rank 26: Finland, 4.0 %

Rank 27: Denmark, 3.9 %

How to read: bars start at zero. Every country with a value is shown, ranked from highest to lowest.Source: Eurostat, Persons living with their parents or contributing/benefiting from the household income (population aged 18 to 34 years) (ilc_lvps08).Chart: Civitascope (civitascope.eu) · CC BY 4.0 · Download image · Download data ·

Men and women

Among women, the spread across countries was narrower. Croatia was again the highest, at 51.2%, and Finland the lowest, at 2.1%. The highest and the lowest were 49.1 percentage points apart.

Among men, the spread across countries was wider than among women. Croatia was again the highest, at 72.2%, and Denmark the lowest, at 5.2%. The gap was 67.0 percentage points.

Share of people aged 25 to 34 who live with their parents: women and men, %

2025 · aged 25 to 34

WomenMenMen − womenDifference

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EU, Women: 24.3 %, Men: 35.6 %, Men − women: +11.3

Rank 1: Croatia, Women: 51.2 %, Men: 72.2 %, Men − women: +21.0

Rank 2: Slovakia, Women: 43.7 %, Men: 64.0 %, Men − women: +20.3

Rank 3: Greece, Women: 48.7 %, Men: 63.0 %, Men − women: +14.3

Rank 4: Poland, Women: 43.0 %, Men: 58.7 %, Men − women: +15.7

Rank 5: Italy, Women: 44.4 %, Men: 56.6 %, Men − women: +12.2

Rank 6: Bulgaria, Women: 27.8 %, Men: 56.5 %, Men − women: +28.7

Rank 7: Spain, Women: 44.0 %, Men: 56.0 %, Men − women: +12.0

Rank 8: Cyprus, Women: 35.2 %, Men: 50.1 %, Men − women: +14.9

Rank 9: Slovenia, Women: 28.6 %, Men: 50.0 %, Men − women: +21.4

Rank 10: Romania, Women: 23.1 %, Men: 49.6 %, Men − women: +26.5

Rank 11: Portugal, Women: 37.4 %, Men: 46.6 %, Men − women: +9.2

Rank 12: Ireland, Women: 31.7 %, Men: 45.2 %, Men − women: +13.5

Rank 13: Hungary, Women: 25.4 %, Men: 42.2 %, Men − women: +16.8

Rank 14: Malta, Women: 33.5 %, Men: 39.7 %, Men − women: +6.2

Rank 15: Latvia, Women: 22.7 %, Men: 37.1 %, Men − women: +14.4

Rank 16: Belgium, Women: 19.0 %, Men: 31.3 %, Men − women: +12.3

Rank 17: Luxembourg, Women: 17.8 %, Men: 29.3 %, Men − women: +11.5

Rank 18: Czechia, Women: 17.0 %, Men: 27.7 %, Men − women: +10.7

Rank 19: Lithuania, Women: 11.1 %, Men: 20.7 %, Men − women: +9.6

Rank 20: Austria, Women: 13.5 %, Men: 20.1 %, Men − women: +6.6

Rank 21: France, Women: 10.2 %, Men: 19.5 %, Men − women: +9.3

Rank 22: Germany, Women: 9.7 %, Men: 17.1 %, Men − women: +7.4

Rank 23: Estonia, Women: 11.9 %, Men: 16.7 %, Men − women: +4.8

Rank 24: Netherlands, Women: 8.6 %, Men: 13.3 %, Men − women: +4.7

Rank 25: Sweden, Women: 5.8 %, Men: 9.0 %, Men − women: +3.2

Rank 26: Finland, Women: 2.1 %, Men: 5.8 %, Men − women: +3.7

Rank 27: Denmark, Women: 2.6 %, Men: 5.2 %, Men − women: +2.6

How to read: the filled dot is men, the outlined dot women, each with its value beside it. The column on the right is their difference, men − women. Countries are ranked by men.Source: Eurostat, Persons living with their parents or contributing/benefiting from the household income (population aged 18 to 34 years) (ilc_lvps08).Chart: Civitascope (civitascope.eu) · CC BY 4.0 · Download image · Download data ·

	Everyone	Women	Men
Lowest	3.9%Denmark	2.1%Finland	5.2%Denmark
Highest	62.3%Croatia	51.2%Croatia	72.2%Croatia
Highest − lowest	58.4 pp	49.1 pp	67.0 pp

Everyone

Lowest: 3.9% (Denmark)Highest: 62.3% (Croatia)Highest − lowest: 58.4 pp

Women

Lowest: 2.1% (Finland)Highest: 51.2% (Croatia)Highest − lowest: 49.1 pp

Men

Lowest: 5.2% (Denmark)Highest: 72.2% (Croatia)Highest − lowest: 67.0 pp

About the data

The share of young people who live in their parents' household. Living under the same roof is not the only way to count. The survey also counts people working away during the week who usually come home at weekends, and pupils living away during the school term. It also counts people living away for a long time for work who contribute significantly to the household income, and higher education students living away who benefit from it, if they do not usually live in another private household.

Counted: aged 25 to 34.

Eurostat: “In the survey, a person is counted as part of the parental household if they are living with their parents” (source)

EU statistics on income and living conditions (EU-SILC). It is a yearly sample survey of households, run by the national statistical institutes.

How to read these numbers

How it is measured

The survey covers people living in private households. People in collective households and institutions are generally not included (Estonia includes collective households).

Provisional figures

A provisional value (flag p) may still be revised. This concerns Lithuania (2025).

Sources and data

Eurostat, Persons living with their parents or contributing/benefiting from the household income (population aged 18 to 34 years) (ilc_lvps08). Data updated 20 October 2026, retrieved 3 November 2026. Licence: CC BY 4.0.

Eurostat metadata · Eurostat methodology

The exact Eurostat API query

https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/api/dissemination/statistics/1.0/data/ilc_lvps08?format=JSON&lang=en&age=Y25-34&freq=A&geo=AT&geo=BE&geo=BG&geo=CY&geo=CZ&geo=DE&geo=DK&geo=EE&geo=EL&geo=ES&geo=EU27_2020&geo=FI&geo=FR&geo=HR&geo=HU&geo=IE&geo=IT&geo=LT&geo=LU&geo=LV&geo=MT&geo=NL&geo=PL&geo=PT&geo=RO&geo=SE&geo=SI&geo=SK&sex=T&unit=PC

How every number in this story was computed