households

Among households in the United States, 68% are owned and 32% are rented, based on estimates from the American Community Survey in 2021. That breakdown isn’t uniform across the country though.

No need to restrict ourselves to the most common types. There are thousands. Let’s look at all of them.

Here’s household income by number of earners in the household, based on data from the 2022 Current Population Survey.

In the 1970s, the most common household type in the U.S. was a married couple with kids. Things are different now.

Here’s how common each household type is and was — and how the makeup compares to a few decades ago.