Remember when neighborhoods were full of children? This is why they aren't anymore: the average number of children (people under age 18) per household peaked in 1964 (also the last year of the baby boom) at 1.24. Since then, the average has fallen in most years. It slipped below 1.0 for the first time in 1974 and reached an all-time low of 0.60 in 2014—less than half of the 1964 level...
Average number of people under age 18 per household
2014: 0.60
2010: 0.64
2000: 0.69
1990: 0.69
1980: 0.79
1970: 1.09
1964: 1.24
Source: Census Bureau, Historical Time Series, Households
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