German sons leave home at average age of 24.5, daughters at 23

More than a quarter of 25-year-old adults in Germany were still living in their parents’ house in 2022, according to figures by the Federal Statistical Office published on Tuesday.

In 2022, 9.2 per cent of people aged 30 were still living with their parents.

Sons continued to live at home longer than daughters: young men were on average 24.5 years old when they moved out, young women were 23.

The average age of moving out in Germany was 23.8 years across genders.

This is relatively early in an EU-wide comparison, where the average age is 26.4 years, the statistical office reported, citing estimates by the EU statistics authority Eurostat.

Southern and eastern European countries had a higher average.

In Croatia, the average age to leave home was the highest in the EU at 33.4 years, followed by Slovakia at 30.8 and Greece at 30.7.

Young people left home earlier in Northern European countries.

In Finland on average at 21.3 years, in Sweden at 21.4 years and in Denmark at 21.7 years, the statistical office reported.

In all EU countries, women were more likely to move out of their childhood homes at a younger age than men.