Data from the 2021 census, released this year, revealed country-wide increases in the number of children living with their parents into adulthood.
Across England and Wales, the number of families with adult children still living at home increased by 13.8% to nearly 3.8 million between 2012 and 2021.
In Greater Manchester, this translates to over 200,000 families living with their grown up children still at home. Read next: Residents left horrified after quiet road becomes violent crime scene Between the boroughs, the highest number of adult children still living in the family is in Manchester; with the highest percentage of families being in Oldham.
The city borough also saw the highest percentage change between the 2011 and 2021 census, with an increase of 25.3 per cent of adults living at home than a decade before.