The share of young adults still living with their parents at age 25 has risen in Germany. According to the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis), it stood at around 30 percent in 2025, up from 28 percent in the years 2022 to 2024. The gender gap is striking: 36 percent of 25-year-old men still lived with their parents, but only 23 percent of women the same age.
The share declines with age: at 30, 13 percent of men and 7 percent of women still lived in the parental home. At 40, the figures were 5 percent for men and 2 percent for women. Of those aged 25 to 34 still living at home, 77 percent were employed – 80 percent of them full-time. The average age at which Germans leave home was 24.1 in 2025, below the EU average of 26.3, according to Eurostat, the EU’s statistics agency.
For comparison: young adults in Finland leave home earliest, at an average age of 21.3, while in Croatia they leave latest, at 31.5.
Source: www.zeit.de
