A record-high percentage—36.4 percent—of women ages 18 to 34 lived at home with their parents or other relatives in 2014, according to data from Pew Research Center.
While not a record, the percentage of men ages 18 to 34 living with their parents is even higher, at 42.8 percent.
"You’d have to go back 74 years to observe similar living arrangements among American young women," states Pew. "Young men, too, are increasingly living in the same situation, but unlike women their share hasn’t climbed to its level from 1940, the highest year on record."
According to Pew, women are staying at home with parents because many are delaying marriage and others are enrolled in college.
"While marriage typically promotes living independently of parents and other relatives, many young women are delaying marriage compared with earlier decades," Pew explains. "In 2013, young women were half as likely to be married (30%) as young women in 1940 (62%)."
In addition to these statistics, Pew finds that college students, including those enrolled part time or at community college, are more likely to live at home with parents than those not in college.