--- title: Millennials Living With Their Parents: Which State Has Most? description: More parents are living with their grown kids than ever, and this map shows where they are. canonical: https://time.com/4495481/millennials-living-home-parents/ author: Belinda Luscombe article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-09-15T18:32:33.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T08:57:46.221Z og:title: This State Has the Most Millennials Living With Their Parents og:description: It's not North Dakota og:url: https://time.com/4495481/millennials-living-home-parents/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: This State Has the Most Millennials Living With Their Parents twitter:description: It's not North Dakota twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # This State Has the Most Millennials Living With Their Parents by [Belinda Luscombe](https://time.com/author/belinda-luscombe/) and [Chris Wilson](https://time.com/author/chris-wilson/) Sep 15, 2016 6:32 PM UTC by [Belinda Luscombe](https://time.com/author/belinda-luscombe/) and [Chris Wilson](https://time.com/author/chris-wilson/) Sep 15, 2016 6:32 PM UTC Ever wondered which state had the highest percentage of grown kids still [living with their parents](http://time.com/money/4425062/deadbeat-millennial-boomerang-kid/)? If you imagined that it might be the great state of New Jersey, you win the prize. Census data released on Sept. 15 says that just less than 47% of New Jersey’s 18-to-34-year-olds are living in their parents’ home. Yep, almost half. The Garden State has the highest proportion of so-called [boomerang kids](http://time.com/money/4350546/why-millennials-live-with-parents-economy/), but it’s not alone. As the map below shows, more than 40% of Connecticut and New York millennials are living with their parents as well. And California and Florida aren’t too far behind. Nationally, just over a third of adults under 35 are living in their parents’ home. The _Failure to Launch_ phenomenon has been growing globally for enough time that the homestayers have [a series of nicknames around the world](http://time.com/72304/adults-parents-insults/?iid=sr-link1), including the charming “parasite singles” in Japan. The Census data, which is gathered from the American Community Survey, doesn’t show how many of these stay-at-homes are at the younger end, say, 18-to-21-year-olds who might be living at home while they finish their education. But it’s probably not coincidental that these states are home to cities with high real estate prices. North Dakota, which has low unemployment and low real estate prices, also has one of the lowest rates of grown kids living with their parents. Then again, so does Washington, D.C. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4495481/millennials-living-home-parents/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4495481/millennials-living-home-parents/"},"headline":"This State Has the Most Millennials Living With Their Parents","datePublished":"2016-09-15T18:32:33.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T08:57:46.221Z","description":"A guide to the boomerang states","url":"https://time.com/4495481/millennials-living-home-parents/","keywords":["Living","Millennials","Parents","families","Census"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Belinda Luscombe","jobTitle":"Editor at Large","url":"https://time.com/author/belinda-luscombe/"},{"@type":"Person","name":"Chris Wilson","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/chris-wilson/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-living/","name":"Living"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4495481/millennials-living-home-parents/","name":"This State Has the Most Millennials Living With Their Parents"}}]}] ```