Poverty and Shared Households An American Community Survey Brief
This brief uses data from the American Community Survey (ACS) to
explore the growth in shared households at the state level
between 2007 and 2011.
The report provides summary statistics on people sharing
households, particularly their age and relationship to the
householder, as well as whether or not household sharing
is influenced by economic circumstances by comparing three
different poverty estimates.
Frequency and Timespan: One -time report with data for 2010 and
2011
Geographic Level of Coverage: National and state level data
Source:
Macartney, Suzanne and Laryssa Mykyta,Poverty and Shared
Households by State: 2011 U.S. Census Bureau, American Community
Survey Briefs ACSBR/11-05. Poverty and Shared Households by
State: 2011 (PDF).
U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2012.
Accessed 7/16/2013
In 2011, almost 1 in 5 households included an “additional adult”
— someone who was not the householder, the householder’s spouse
or cohabiting partner.
