Moving out: Germans leave the parental home earlier

More and more teenagers and young adults are moving away from home more quickly. This is according to a statement from the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis). In 2021, 2.6 out of 8.3 million 15 to 24-year-olds no longer lived at home. 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 home, only 27.6 percent of men have done so at this point. However, the gap between men and women moving out is narrowing. While it was still 10.7 percent in 2011, it is only 7.5 percent in 2021.

Within the EU, Germans are rather quick to move out of their parents' home. In 2021, they moved out at an average age of 23.6, almost three years earlier than the EU average. Children in Sweden (19.0 years), Finland (21.2 years) and Denmark (21.3 years) were the quickest to leave home in 2021, while children in Slovakia (30.9 years), Croatia (33.3 years) and Portugal (33.6 years) were the oldest when they left home.

Source: destatis.de
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