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The typical American picture of a family with 2.5 kids might not be as relevant as it once was: In 2023, there was an average of 1.94 children under 18 per family in the United States.
Average Number of Children Per Family and Per Family With Children, by State, for 1990 and 2000. America’s Families and Living Arrangements tables show that about 64% of households were classified as family households in 2024.
Average Number of People per Family Household With Own Children Under 18, by Race and Hispanic Origin, Marital Status, Age, and Education of Householder: 2022. This series of tables looks at the living arrangements of children, including their coresidence with parents and grandparents, by characteristics such as nativity status and poverty status.
The size of the average U.S. family — defined as people related by birth, marriage or adoption who live together — is now around three people, down from almost four in 1960.
Most families have one or two children, and a few states have slightly higher numbers. The size of families has decreased significantly throughout the nation's history. The average household was 5.79 people in 1790, which has significantly decreased to 2.58 in 2010.
As of 2023, the U.S. Census Bureau counted about 84.33 million families in the United States. The average family consisted of 3.15 persons in 2021, down from 3.7 in the 1960s. This is...
Average Number of Children Per U.S. Family (Historic) 7.04 6.73 6.14 5.21 4.24 3.56 3.17 2.22 1.84 2.05 1.73 3.62 BABY BOOM GREAT DEPRESSION. Created Date: 4/3/2020 2:09:59 PM ...
Globally speaking, the average family size worldwide hovers around 3.45 people per household in 2023. However, there are many countries where the local average is either less or more than that. Senegal tops the global list when it comes to large families, with most households including between ten and a dozen people.
Now, moms have 2.4 children on average – a number that has been fairly stable for two decades. In 1976, four-in-ten mothers ages 40 to 44 had four or more children. One-fourth had three children, and a similar share (24%) had two children.
Table FM-3. Average Number of Own Children Under 18 Per Family, by Type of Family: 1955 to 2023 [<1.0 MB]