About half of the young people aged 18-35 live with their parents

Even before the corona – the young people in Israel have difficulty renting or buying an apartment in Israel, and the data published by the Central Bureau of Statistics reveal how difficult the picture is. The data are correct for 2018, and it can be expected that the corona year that brought with it economic difficulties, will lead to a big jump in the data that is now published.

Residential patterns of young people in Israel 2018

In 2018, approximately 1.96 million young people aged 34-18 lived in Israeli households. Half of them, about 978,000, lived with their parents, without a spouse or children of their own. About 830,000 (42%) lived with their own family (with a spouse and / or with their children), and about 127,000 (7%) lived without a family in a non-family household – alone or with partners.

Between 2000 and 2018, there was an increase in the percentage of young people living with their parents (without their own spouse or children), and at the same time, a decrease in the percentage of young people living with their own family. This phenomenon was accompanied by the postponement of the first marriage to a later age. These patterns were observed in both the Jewish and Arab populations, however, in the Arab population the changes were more rapid.

Young people living with their parents

About 96% of the young people who lived with their parents, without a spouse or children of their own, were single.

The percentage of young men living with their parents was higher than the percentage of young women (56% and 44%, respectively).

With increasing age, there is a decrease in the percentage of young people living with their parents: about 83% of those aged 24-18 lived with their parents compared to 13% of those aged 34-30.

The percentage of Arab men aged 34-25 who lived with their parents was 1.6 times higher than the percentage of Jewish men. Similarly, Arab women aged 29-25 lived with their parents at a rate 1.2 times higher than Jewish women, and at the age of 34-30 at a rate 1.4 times higher.

The percentage of young people aged 34-25 living with their parents was about 32% of men and about 18% of women in Israel. Compared to the countriesOECD, Israel is relatively located in the middle. The lowest percentage is found in the Scandinavian countries (less than 10% of men, and less than 5% of women), while the highest percentage is found in Italy, Slovakia and Greece (more than 50% of men and more than 40% of women).

Young people living with their own family

18-34 year olds living with their own family (42%) are divided as follows: 11% lived with a spouse only (as a married or unmarried couple), 30% with a spouse and children and another 1% lived with their children in the family Single mother.

The percentage of women aged 18-38 who lived with their own family was higher than the percentage of men at that age (50% and 35%, respectively).

With increasing age, the proportion of those living with their own family among the young increases: 12% of those aged 24-18,[2] 53% of 29-25 year olds and about 79% of 34-30 year olds.

The percentage of Jewish men aged 29-18 who lived with their own family (including unmarried couples living together) is higher than the percentage of Arab men at this age (24% and 11%, respectively). A similar percentage of young Jewish and Arab women lived with their own family (about 35%).

About 6% of 34-18 year olds lived with an unmarried spouse, living together, most of them Jews and others.

Young people living in non-family households (alone or with partners)

Most of the young people who lived without a family in a non-family household were single – about 98% of my sons
24-18 who lived in a non-family household were single, compared with 83% of 34-30 year olds.

About 7% of Jews aged 18-34 lived in a non-family household, compared with about 2.5% of young Arabs of the same age.

Residence patterns of young people by religious lifestyle

About 40% of young people aged 18-28 whose lifestyle is ultra-Orthodox have lived with their own family, more than 3 times the very religious and religious young people, and 7 times the secular and traditional young people of the same age.

Young Jews aged 34-25 whose lifestyle is secular, lived in non-family households at a much higher rate than religious or very religious young people (2.7 times) and traditional (3.7 times). Living in non-family households is not acceptable among ultra-Orthodox young people.

Residence patterns of young people by education and employment

Younger 34-25 year olds with higher education lived less with their parents and more in non-family households and as unmarried couples living together. This is the case among young people who have completed 13 years of schooling or more, compared to those who have completed up to 12 years of schooling, and among those with an academic degree compared to the rest of the young people.

Unemployed people aged 34-25 lived more with their parents (36%), compared to employed (23%) and non-employed (28%).

Those aged 34-25 who did not participate in the labor force lived at the highest rate with their own family (67%; mostly Arab women or ultra-Orthodox men), followed by the employed (66%), and by a large margin, the unemployed (55%).

The data in the announcement refer to 2018. It can be expected that following the corona plague, the percentage of young people living in their parents’ home will increase, due to financial difficulties, postponement of marriage or distance learning of students. Indeed, in 2020 a slight increase in living with parents was observed among young people aged 18-34 (without a spouse or children of their own) (from 50.3% in 2019 to 51.5% in 2020), and especially among aged 18-24 (from 84.0% in 2019 to 85.9% in 2020). The percentage of young people living in non-family households remained similar.

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