The number of households in the U.S. more than tripled between 1940 and 2010, from 35 million to 117 million. A household comprises all the people who occupy a single housing unit, regardless of their relationship to one another. This new
Population Bulletin examines the dramatic changes in U.S. household structure in the last 70 years, and how households differ by important characteristics such as age, race and ethnicity, and education. Also online:
* DataFinder: Data on Household Types by U.S. States and Counties