Thursday, September 15, 2011

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

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