Households Grow by More than 1 Million

The number of households in the United States grew by more than 1 million between 2010 and 2011, according to the Current Population Survey's 2011 Annual Social and Economic Supplement. This one-year increase in households was the largest since 2006-07 and more than three times as great as the increase between 2009-10. By age, the number of households in 2011 and the change since 2010 look like this (numbers in 000s)...

	2011	change
Total	118,682	1,144
<25	6,140	-93
25-34	19,572	315
35-44	21,250	-269
45-54	24,530	-341
55-64	21,828	1,441
65-plus	25,362	92

Source: Census Bureau, Current Population Survey