Census finds that over half a million adults still live with their parents

The number of Irish people aged 18 and over who are still living with their parents now stands at over half a million people, according to latest information released by the Central Statistics Office (CSO).

In its latest Census 2022 release ‘Households, Families and Childcare’, the CSO outlines that adults living with their parents has risen by 14pc since 2016 to 522,486.

This represents an increase of 63,612 since 2016 and 83,008 since 2011.

More than half of all adults living with their parents are working, with 54pc of men and 50pc of women in employment.

4pc of women and 8pc of men living with their parents were unemployed. Of those unemployed people, 46pc were short-term unemployed and 54pc were long-term unemployed.

Factoring in population increases and demographics, the CSO said: “However, the proportion of all adults aged 18 years and over living with their parents has remained the same across the three censuses, at 13pc in each case.”

The number of families with no children saw an increase of 11% since 2016 and of 14% when compared with 2011.

There were 20% more one-parent father families with children who were renting than in Census 2016.

The number of same-sex couples increased by 157% when compared with 2011 and stood at 10,393 in Census 2022.

Since 2016, the number of cohabiting couples without children living in private households went up by 17%, more than twice the growth rate of married couples without children living in private households.

In Census 2022, 8% of all persons in private households lived alone, including 44% of those aged 85 years and over.

There were 50% more adult unpaid carers living with their parents in 2022 than 2016.

Of the 331,783 children aged under 15 who were in childcare, 3% or 9,789 reported experiencing at least one long-lasting condition or difficulty to a great extent or a lot.