---
title: "Multi-Generational Households in Europe"
description: "Among Europeans ages 25-34, nearly one-in-three men and one-in-five women lived with at least one of their parents in 2008, according to a recent report from the European Commission. "
date: "2010-10-08"
authors:
  - name: "D’Vera Cohn"
    job_title: "Former Senior Writer/Editor"
    link: "https://www.pewresearch.org/staff/dvera-cohn/"
url: "https://www.pewresearch.org/social-trends/2010/10/08/multi-generational-households-in-europe/"
categories:
  - "Household Structure & Family Roles"
---

# Multi-Generational Households in Europe

Among Europeans ages 25-34, nearly one-in-three men and one-in-five women lived with at least one of their parents in 2008, according to a [recent report from the European Commission. ](http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/cache/ITY_PUBLIC/3-08102010-AP/EN/3-08102010-AP-EN.PDF)The highest shares were in Bulgaria for men (61%) and in Slovakia for women (42%).

These figures are higher than they are in the United States, where there has been a [recent rise in multi-generational family households,](https://www.pewresearch.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2010/10/752-multi-generational-families.pdf) as documented in a recent Pew Research Center report. According to the report, which is based on census data, 22% of men and 18% of women ages 25-34 lived in a multi-generational family household in 2008; in the vast majority of cases, they lived with one or both of their parents. In October 2009, a Pew Research Center survey found that 13% of parents with grown children said one of their adult sons or daughters had moved back home in the previous year.