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At what age do young people leave home across Europe?

Croatia comes top at 31.5 years and Finland bottom at 21.3 years. The EU-27 figure is 26.3 years.

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Eurostat estimates the average age at which young people leave the parental household, from the EU Labour Force Survey.

These are survey estimates, so each comes with sampling error. Countries close together in the table may not really differ; treat near neighbours as roughly equal rather than as a strict ranking.

Most figures are for 2025; a few countries' latest figure is from 2024, shown in the table.

Countryestimated mean ageYear
Croatia31.5 years2025
Greece30.9 years2025
Slovakia30.9 years2025
North Macedonia30.7 years2025
Spain30.2 years2025
Italy30.2 years2025
Serbia30.1 years2025
Bosnia and Herzegovina29.5 years2025
Portugal28.8 years2025
Slovenia28.8 years2025
Türkiye28.2 years2024
Bulgaria27.9 years2025
Malta27.5 years2025
Romania27.4 years2025
Hungary27.3 years2025
Cyprus27.0 years2025
Ireland26.9 years2025
Poland26.8 years2025
Luxembourg26.6 years2025
Belgium26.2 years2025
Czechia25.8 years2025
Latvia25.7 years2025
Austria25.2 years2025
Germany24.1 years2025
France23.8 years2025
Netherlands23.4 years2025
Sweden23.1 years2025
Norway22.9 years2025
Estonia22.7 years2025
Lithuania22.7 years2025
Denmark21.8 years2025
Finland21.3 years2025
How do we know?

Source: Eurostat (European Commission), Eurostat yth_demo_030: Estimated average age of young persons leaving the parental household. Source: Eurostat (yth_demo_030), Estimated average age of young persons leaving the parental household. Reuse authorised with acknowledgement. Eurostat copyright and licence policy (Commission Decision 2011/833/EU; CC BY 4.0 for Commission content).

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