More than half of young adults moved back home after leaving

Nypost · Jun 02, 2026 · 1069 words · By Realtor com

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More than half of young adults moved back home after leaving See more of our coverage in your search results.

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Add The New York Post on GoogleAlmost 60% of young adults have moved back home at some point, but they don’t see it as a failure to launch.

Common ground

That the path to full independent living is increasingly an ongoing process, strewn with periods of moving out and then back in, is the conclusion of a new survey from storage solution company SpareFoot, which surveyed 981 Gen Z adults and young millennials.

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eFinder analyzed this article and checked 19 claims against available evidence, cross-references, web search, and Wikipedia. Here is what the fact-checking layer found.

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Claim 1: “Financial services company Thrivent surveyed 2,325 adults across the U.S.”

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Claim 2: “63% say they personally no longer feel embarrassed or judged about their living situation.”

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The 63% figure regarding lack of embarrassment appears in the same single web search result as claim 5, without independent corroboration.

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web search NEUTRAL — Jun 2, 2026 ... A vast majority of the respondents—62%—said the harsh stigma around moving back home has faded compared with previous generations, and 63% say ...
https://nypost.com/2026/06/02/real-estate/more-than-half-of-…

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web search NEUTRAL — Mar 3, 2026 ... Roughly 6 in 10 Americans (59%) said they have used a storage unit to hide something private from others. And for many, it is not a thing of the ...
https://www.sparefoot.com/blog/storage-unit-secrets-study

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web search NEUTRAL — Feb 2, 2026 ... My kids mom and I separated last year then a few months later I had a stroke, being off work for a year was hard financially, my moms place ...
https://www.facebook.com/LmaoMommy/posts/are-millennials-or-…

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Claim 3: “Other financial reasons that young adults say they aren’t flying the coop just yet are waiting for the right income level or salary (38%), reaching a specific amount of savings (23%), and paying off existing debt (13%).”

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The provided evidence for this claim only contains general information about SpareFoot and does not contain the specific percentages (38%, 23%, 13%) mentioned in the claim.

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web search NEUTRAL — SpareFoot is an Austin -based company that provides listings for self-storage units. The company was originally a person-to-person model, similar to Airbnb, that later developed into a marketplace for…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpareFoot

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web search NEUTRAL — SpareFoot is the world's largest marketplace for moving and storage. Find exclusive deals and read thousands of customer reviews.
https://www.sparefoot.com/

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web search NEUTRAL — SpareFoot is the largest marketplace for finding and reserving a self-storage unit. For more than a decade, SpareFoot has helped consumers get the best deals on self-storage by making it easy to find …
https://www.sparefoot.com/storage.html

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Claim 4: “the most recent U.S. Census figures found that 33% of individuals aged 18 to 34 live with their parents”

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No evidence was found in the search results to support or refute the 33% U.S. Census figure.

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Claim 5: “it is even higher in pricey states like New Jersey (44.1%), Connecticut (41.3%), California (39.1%), Maryland (38.5%), and Florida (36.6%).”

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No evidence was found in the search results to support or refute the state-specific percentages provided.

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Claim 6: “26% declared they moved home to deliberately save money.”

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The specific figure of 26% moving home to save money appears in the same single web search result as claim 3, without independent corroboration.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — SpareFoot is an Austin-based company that provides listings for self-storage units. The company was originally a person-to-person model, similar to Airbnb, that later developed into a marketplace for …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpareFoot

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Claim 7: “A vast majority of the respondents—62%—said the harsh stigma around moving back home has faded compared with previous generations”

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The 62% figure regarding the fading stigma of moving back home appears in one web search result, but no other independent source confirms this specific data point.

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web search NEUTRAL — 62 is a semiprime. [1] It is also the number of faces of two of the Archimedean solids, the rhombicosidodecahedron and truncated icosidodecahedron. 62 is the smallest number that is the sum of three d…
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/62_(number)

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Claim 8: “in costly San Diego, where the median rent is a staggering $3,100 a month, and the median home list price is $933,325”

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Claim 9: “More than half (55%) of boomerang parents expect this type of arrangement to last at least a year.”

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Claim 10: “Almost 60% of young adults have moved back home at some point”

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The claim is found in a web search result titled 'More than half of young adults moved back home after leaving', but there is no second independent source confirming this specific 60% statistic.

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Claim 11: “the main factor driving them back home to begin with is unaffordable housing (45%), which came out ahead of even job loss or reduced income (36%).”

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Claim 12: “a new survey from storage solution company SpareFoot, which surveyed 981 Gen Z adults and young millennials”

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While SpareFoot is verified as a company via Wikipedia and web search, the specific detail about a survey of 981 Gen Z adults and young millennials is not corroborated by a second independent source.

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Claim 13: “Top reasons these young adults returned to the fold included the 34% who wanted to save for a down payment on their own home, 22% who wanted to build emergency savings, and 13% who were paying off student loans.”

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Claim 14: “Nearly 30% of young adults (ages 18-35) said they had moved back home at least once, with an even higher proportion (32%) saying they had never moved out.”

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Claim 15: “According to the survey, 3 in 4 young adults say living with family or in transitional housing (often with a roommate) is a “smart financial strategy,””

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The exact phrasing '3 in 4 young adults say living with family... is a smart financial strategy' appears in one web search result, but is not corroborated by another independent source.

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Claim 16: “The survey finds that 58% of young adults—or 3 in 5—who moved away from home later move back, including 15% who have done this multiple times.”

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The specific percentages (58% and 15%) are not found in the provided evidence snippets, although the general topic is mentioned in one web search result.

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Claim 17: “1 in 4 felt that it was “not likely” that they would move out within 5 to 10 years.”

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Claim 18: “Finances are impacted for nearly half (47%) of these adults, with many “willing” to cut personal spending (43%) and personal savings or retirement contributions (19%) or delaying major purchases (36%) to make boomerang living work.”

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Claim 19: “30% of young adults who haven’t bought a home yet say they don’t expect to ever purchase one, due to the high costs.”

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