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Article: CENSUS FIGURES SHOW MORE, BUT SMALLER, HOUSEHOLDS
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- Post-Tribune (IN)
- Article date:
- April 5, 1988
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THIS ELECTRONIC VERSION MAY DIFFER SLIGHTLY FROM THE PRINTED VERSION.
The United States has more than 90 million households for the first time, but each contains fewer people than ever, the Census Bureau reported Monday.
The 90,031,000 households in the United States averaged 2.64 members each as of last July 1.
"The reason is, in effect, changes in the age structure," explained Campbell Gibson, a population specialist for the bureau.
Most Americans born in the post-World War II Baby Boom are now in their 20s and 30s, ages during which they are most likely to set up households on their own, he said.
The fact that many are doing so boosted the number of households from 80.4 million in 1980 ...