Big Increase in Cell-Phone-Only Households

In the past year, the percentage of adults who live in cell-phone-only households increased 5 percentage points to 30 percent. This group is still much smaller than the 59 percent of adults who live in households with both landline and wireless phones. Only 9 percent of adults live in a household without a cell phone.

Here are the January-June 2011 figures on the percentage of adults by age who live in wireless-only households...

18-24:  46.8%

25-29:  58.1%

30-34:  46.2%

35-44:  34.3%

45-64:  21.6%

65+:  7.9%

Source: National Center for Health Statistics, Wireless Substitution: Early Release of Estimates from the National Health Interview Survey, January-June, 2011