SIPP Data Reveals New Details on Living Arrangements

The Census Bureau's 2014 Survey of Income and Program Participation provides new details about the living arrangements of Americans. This is who Americans lived with in 2013 (note: categories are not mutually exclusive)...

Living arrangements

Live with a spouse: 39.2%

   Opposite-sex spouse: 39.0%

   Same-sex spouse: 0.2%

Live with parent/child: 37.4%

Live alone: 11.6%

Live with unmarried partner: 6.1%

   Opposite-sex partners: 5.7%

   Same-sex partner: 0.4%

Live with other nonrelative: 2.9%

Live with grandparent/grandchild: 0.9%

Live with sibling: 0.9%

Live with other relative: 0.9%

The SIPP survey also looked at changes in household composition. For the great majority of Americans (84 percent) household size and composition did not change over a year's time. Another 11 percent of the population experienced one change in household composition during a year's time—such as a birth or death or someone moving in or out of the household. Five percent of the population experienced two or more changes in household composition.

Source: Census Bureau, Demographics and Living Arrangements: 2013