There's been talk of people sharing homes during the recession, and now the Census Bureau has released the data to prove it.
This spring, there were 21.8 million "doubled-up" households across the nation, a 10.7 percent increase from the 19.7 million households in the spring of 2007, the Census Bureau said. That means 18.3 percent of all households were combined households.
Much of the increase was the result of adult children who either moved back home during the recession or never left. Among adults between the ages of 25 and 34, some 5.9 million were living with their parents this spring, up from 4.7 million before the recession hit in 2007. That 25 percent increase translated to 14.2 percent of all young adults living with their parents in March, the bureau said.
For Census purposes, a house is considered "doubled-up" if at least one more adult is living there who is not enrolled in school and is not the main householder, spouse or cohabitating partner of the householder.