More and more teenagers and young adults are moving away from home more quickly. This is the result of a report by the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis). Thus, 2.6 of 8.3 million 15- to 24-year-olds no longer lived at home in 2021. This corresponds to 31.2 percent. Ten years earlier, only 27.5 percent had moved out of the parental home at this age.
According to the Federal Statistical Office, women move out slightly earlier than men. While 35.1 percent of 15- to 24-year-old women have already left their parents' home, only 27.6 percent of men have done so at this point. However, the gap between men and women in terms of moving out is narrowing. While it was still 10.7 percent in 2011, it will only be 7.5 percent in 2021.
Within the EU, Germans are rather quick to move out of their parental homes. In 2021, they moved out at an average age of 23.6 years, almost three years earlier than the EU average. In Sweden (19.0 years), Finland (21.2 years) and Denmark (21.3 years), children fledged the fastest in 2021, while in Slovakia (30.9 years), Croatia (33.3 years) and Portugal (33.6 years), children were the oldest when they left home.
Source: destatis.de
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