Eurostat · 31 countries · 2025

Half of young Europeans have left home by age 26.3

Years old · European Union · 2025 · +0.1 years vs 2024

In Finland that point arrives at 21.3. In Croatia it does not arrive until 31.5, a gap of 10.2 years for the same step in life. This compares European countries with each other, not with the United States.

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Searches for this figure usually call it the average age of leaving home. It is not quite an average: Eurostat measures the age by which half of young people no longer live with their parents. How that changes the reading.

Every country · 2025 10.2 years apart

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Women 25.5 Men 27.2 Countries 31

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The age by which half of young people have left the parental home, 2025. Hatched countries have no figure for 2025; the map shows their most recent year instead, and the table below names that year. Every figure is also in that table.

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Why there is no percentile here

A percentile needs the individual records — one row per person, thousands of them. What Eurostat publishes here is one number per country: the age by which half have left. That tells you which side of the midpoint you are on, and nothing about the shape of the distribution around it. So we will not tell you that you are in the 30th percentile, because the data cannot support it.

Every country

All 34 countries, earliest to latest

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Age by which half of young people have left the parental home. 31 countries at 2025; 3 shown at their most recent year instead.
Trend 2000–2025, with breaks
Finland 21.3 21.8 20.7 +1.1 years Trend 2003 to 2025. Series breaks in 2021.
Denmark 21.8 22.1 21.6 +0.5 years Trend 2010 to 2025. Series breaks in 2016, 2021.
Estonia 22.7 23.2 22.1 +1.1 years Trend 2000 to 2025. Series breaks in 2021.
Lithuania 22.7 23.3 22.0 +1.3 years Trend 2002 to 2025. Series breaks in 2021.
Norway 22.9 23.7 22.2 +1.5 years Trend 2021 to 2025.
Sweden 23.1 23.5 22.6 +0.9 years Trend 2009 to 2025. Series breaks in 2021.
Netherlands 23.4 23.9 22.9 +1.0 year Trend 2000 to 2025. Series breaks in 2010, 2013, 2021.
France 23.8 24.6 22.9 +1.7 years Trend 2003 to 2025. Series breaks in 2014, 2021.
Germany 24.1 24.8 23.3 +1.5 years Trend 2000 to 2025. Series breaks in 2005, 2010, 2020, 2021.
United Kingdom 2019 24.6 25.4 23.8 +1.6 years Trend 2000 to 2019. Series breaks in 2004, 2007, 2008.
Austria 25.2 26.0 24.3 +1.7 years Trend 2004 to 2025. Series breaks in 2013, 2021.
Latvia 25.7 27.0 24.2 +2.8 years Trend 2002 to 2025. Series breaks in 2021.
Czechia 25.8 27.2 24.4 +2.8 years Trend 2002 to 2025. Series breaks in 2011, 2021.
Belgium 26.2 26.9 25.6 +1.3 years Trend 2000 to 2025. Series breaks in 2017, 2021.
Luxembourg 26.6 26.9 26.3 +0.6 years Trend 2000 to 2025. Series breaks in 2007, 2009, 2015, 2021.
Poland 26.8 27.9 25.7 +2.2 years Trend 2003 to 2025. Series breaks in 2010, 2021.
Ireland 26.9 27.5 26.4 +1.1 years Trend 2006 to 2025. Series breaks in 2007, 2017, 2021.
Cyprus 27.0 27.8 26.1 +1.7 years Trend 2000 to 2025. Series breaks in 2009, 2021.
Hungary 27.3 28.5 26.2 +2.3 years Trend 2000 to 2025. Series breaks in 2001, 2021.
Romania 27.4 29.4 25.3 +4.1 years Trend 2002 to 2025. Series breaks in 2021.
Malta 27.5 27.3 27.8 −0.5 years Trend 2003 to 2025. Series breaks in 2005, 2021.
Bulgaria 27.9 29.7 26.0 +3.7 years Trend 2004 to 2025. Series breaks in 2010, 2021.
Türkiye 2024 28.2 29.9 26.6 +3.3 years Trend 2006 to 2024. Series breaks in 2014, 2021.
Portugal 28.8 29.6 28.1 +1.5 years Trend 2000 to 2025. Series breaks in 2003, 2010, 2011, 2021.
Slovenia 28.8 30.0 27.5 +2.5 years Trend 2002 to 2025. Series breaks in 2021.
Bosnia and Herzegovina 29.5 31.4 27.4 +4.0 years Trend 2021 to 2025.
Serbia 30.1 32.0 28.2 +3.8 years Trend 2014 to 2025. Series breaks in 2021.
Spain 30.2 30.8 29.6 +1.2 years Trend 2000 to 2025. Series breaks in 2005, 2021.
Italy 30.2 30.9 29.3 +1.6 years Trend 2004 to 2025. Series breaks in 2021.
North Macedonia 30.7 33.6 27.6 +6.0 years Trend 2006 to 2025. Series breaks in 2021.
Greece 30.9 32.2 29.4 +2.8 years Trend 2000 to 2025. Series breaks in 2004, 2009, 2021.
Slovakia 30.9 32.2 29.5 +2.7 years Trend 2003 to 2025. Series breaks in 2011, 2021.
Croatia 31.5 32.8 30.0 +2.8 years Trend 2002 to 2025. Series breaks in 2021.
Montenegro 2020 33.3 35.6 31.1 +4.5 years Trend 2011 to 2020.

The gap is men minus women, so a positive number means women reach the midpoint earlier. A year next to a country means Eurostat has no 2025 figure for it, and the row shows that year instead. Trend lines are not drawn across series breaks (the small notches): in 2021 the EU Labour Force Survey was reorganized, and 32 of 34 countries carry a break there.

What the numbers say

The European figure is flat. The countries are converging.

30 of 31

countries where women reach the midpoint before men in 2025, by 2.0 years on average. The exception is Malta.

12.1 10.2

years between the earliest and the latest country, 2022 versus 2025. Only the 31 countries with a value in both years.

26.4 26.3

the European Union figure, 2022 to 2025. 11 countries moved earlier by at least 0.5 years, 2 moved later.

−2.1

years: the biggest move since 2022, in Bulgaria (30.0 to 27.9).

6.0

years: the widest gap between men and women in 2025, in North Macedonia (men 33.6, women 27.6).

Comparisons over time start in 2022, the first year after Eurostat’s 2021 series break, so they cover a short window.

Between 2022 and 2025 the European Union figure barely moved, from 26.4 to 26.3. That flat line hides the actual change: the spread between the earliest and latest country narrowed from 12.1 years to 10.2 years. The countries that leave latest are closing the distance; the Nordics are drifting the other way.

The comparison starts at 2022 and not earlier, and that is not a rounding of convenience. Eurostat flags a break in 2021, when the European Labour Force Survey was reorganised, and the break year itself is transitional: Portugal reads 33.3 in 2021, 30.1 the year after, and 28.9 back in 2019. Measured from 2005 the spread appears to grow; measured across comparable years it shrinks. The code refuses to calculate it the first way.

Method

How this is measured

Every number on this page is either published by Eurostat or counted from those published numbers. Nothing is estimated on top.

What the figure is
Eurostat publishes one indicator per country per year: the age by which half of young people no longer live in a household with their parents. It is derived from the European Union Labour Force Survey. Eurostat’s own dataset title calls it an “estimated average age”, which does not match its own definition — a midpoint and an average are different things, and they differ most where the distribution is lopsided. This page follows the definition.
What it is not
It is not a distribution, so no percentile can be calculated from it. It is not a count of people. And it is a country-level figure: it describes a cohort, not any individual in it.
Coverage
31 countries have a figure for 2025. Türkiye (2024), Montenegro (2020), United Kingdom (2019) stopped reporting earlier and are shown at their most recent year, hatched on the map and labeled in the table. The United States, Canada and Australia are not in this dataset, because Eurostat does not cover them.
Series breaks
In 2021 Eurostat flags a break in the series: the European Labour Force Survey was reorganized, and 32 of 34 countries carry the flag for that year. The break year itself is transitional, so figures before 2022 exist in the source but are not comparable with today. Comparisons over time on this page start in 2022.
Source
  • Dataset Eurostat yth_demo_030, Estimated average age of young persons leaving the parental household
  • Series 2000 to 2025
  • Last updated by Eurostat 2026-04-16
  • Retrieved 2026-10-20
  • DOI 10.2908/YTH_DEMO_030
  • Metadata explanatory texts

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