When you think of household types in the United States, the most common ones probably come to mind: single, married couple, married couple with a kid,

All the Household Types in the U.S.

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2023-05-25 13:30:06

When you think of household types in the United States, the most common ones probably come to mind: single, married couple, married couple with a kid, or married couple with two kids. And that makes sense, since that covers about two-thirds of all households.

But I’ve been wondering about the remaining third of households. That’s when you start to see a lot of variation.

Relationships are relative to the householder who answered the survey. The top comes out as expected, but I was kind of surprised to see institutional inmates so high on the list. And #7, other non-relatives, is mostly people living in group quarters like dorms.

There are many more household types though. Here’s the eleventh to thirtieth most common. Notice more family members, extended family, kids, and friends.

Still, this is just a small sample. There were 4,708 types recorded in the ACS data. While we’re looking, here are the top 100.

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