'i'm The Lucky One' - More Than One In Three Young Men Now Live With Their Parents

More than 1 successful 3 young men successful nan UK were surviving pinch their parents successful 2025, up from 26% successful 2000, according to information from nan Office for National Statistics (ONS).

The summation is being driven by precocious renting costs and rising location prices, caller studies suggest.

The information shows 35% of young men aged 20-35 were surviving pinch their parents - much than young women (22%), though nan complaint successful some groups has been increasing.

In abstracted research, nan statistic assemblage recovered nan rising costs of surviving was nan astir important rumor facing adults, supra nan NHS and nan system successful general.

Nathan, 24, lives pinch his dada successful a assembly location conscionable extracurricular of Manchester.

He useful nighttime shifts cleaning and maintaining trains and says he has managed to build up a savings cookware of £50,000 by not moving retired of nan family home.

"If you are fortunate capable to unrecorded pinch a mum, dada aliases grandparent who doesn't complaint you overmuch rent, past you tin build up money moreover connected nan minimum wage," he says.

He says he cooks chillis and stews to return to work, avoids impulse purchases and tries to support spending connected a nighttime retired beneath £20.

"I'm not that willing successful getting a flashy car, spending it each connected alcohol, aliases getting immoderate £500 trainers," he adds.

"My dada managed to bargain a location astatine 21, but that was conscionable really it was backmost then."

The ONS information shows that 35% of young men aged 20-35 years aged were surviving pinch their parents successful 2025 compared pinch 22% of young women.

Harry Turnbull, 22, moved backmost successful pinch his mum successful Surrey past summertime to decorativeness his studies.

He says he missed his independency aft 3 years surviving pinch friends arsenic a student connected nan southbound seashore but felt he had nary different choice.

"Everything is so, truthful costly and prices person conscionable gone up massively," he adds.

"I deliberation young group should person much of an action to unrecorded independently but, astatine nan moment, that's conscionable not possible."

The ONS said that astir 3 successful 10 households successful nan UK were made up of a personification surviving unsocial successful 2025.

Almost half of those, aliases astir 4 million, were group aged 65 and over, a mini summation connected 2015.

Meanwhile, nan proportionality of families made up of a joined mates pinch aliases without children has fallen arsenic different family types, including unmarried couples, civilian partners and azygous parents go much common.

Separately, much than 2 thirds of adults surveyed told nan ONS that nan costs of surviving had accrued successful March 2026 compared pinch a period earlier, pinch rising nutrient and petrol prices nan astir communal reasons given.

Between January and March, almost 1 successful 4 adults said they would beryllium incapable to salary an unexpected but basal disbursal of £850, while 3% said they had tally retired of nutrient successful nan past 2 weeks and could not spend to bargain more.