# POLL: How many people live in your household? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [September 25, 2020, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-how-many-people-live-in-your-household/921543 "2020-09-25T21:45:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![squeegee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/squeegee/32/14537_2.png) [@squeegee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/squeegee)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2020, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-how-many-people-live-in-your-household/921543/1 "2020-09-25T21:45:38Z")
_Poll ([view on site](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-how-many-people-live-in-your-household/921543/1))_ ---
**Author:** ![Velocity](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/velocity/32/18006_2.png) [@Velocity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Velocity)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2020, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-how-many-people-live-in-your-household/921543/2 "2020-09-25T21:46:18Z")
Right now, just one, but in a week I will move back in with two family members, making it 3. ---
**Author:** ![Icarus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/icarus/32/72_2.png) [@Icarus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Icarus)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2020, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-how-many-people-live-in-your-household/921543/3 "2020-09-25T23:12:34Z")
Me, my spouse, adult boy child and his girlfriend. We waggishly refer to them as our roommates, and are counting the days until they “launch”. ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/22080_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2020, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-how-many-people-live-in-your-household/921543/4 "2020-09-26T00:22:34Z")
If you’d asked a month ago, my answer would have been multigenerational. But daughter and SIL have moved into their first home, taking their daughter, dog, and cats with them. Our home is ours again! WOOHOO!!! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![ekedolphin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ekedolphin/32/10003_2.png) [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2020, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-how-many-people-live-in-your-household/921543/5 "2020-09-26T00:24:45Z")
My vote was “multi-generational family”. My mother and I live together in a trailer outside my landlord and landlady’s house. For tax and legal purposes, it’s just the two of us. We buy our own groceries, pay for our own car, buy our own gas. Inside the house, it’s the landlord and landlady; two of their three adult children; and two roommates living there full-time. Their adult children have shared custody of teenage children of their own (one each). And we have another guy living farther away, on the same property, in another trailer. There are many dogs on the property, some of which live in the house and others living in a kennel. There are two or three horses, and the other trailer guy has a 9-week-old kitten. So that makes 11 total human beings. ---
**Author:** ![squeegee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/squeegee/32/14537_2.png) [@squeegee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/squeegee)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2020, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-how-many-people-live-in-your-household/921543/6 "2020-09-26T02:42:38Z")
In retrospect, the poll should have had a “1+ (single parent)” option. Huge omission. Also: “It’s complicated (explain)” I suppose. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2020, 1:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-how-many-people-live-in-your-household/921543/7 "2020-09-26T13:19:27Z")
I live with my gf in a large house on a “hobby farm”. ---
**Author:** ![K2500](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/f6c823/32.png) [@K2500](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/K2500)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2020, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-how-many-people-live-in-your-household/921543/8 "2020-09-26T14:25:06Z")
1+5=6 ---
**Author:** ![TheCuse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thecuse/32/2854_2.png) [@TheCuse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheCuse)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2020, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-how-many-people-live-in-your-household/921543/9 "2020-09-26T14:32:25Z")
Just me. ---
**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2020, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-how-many-people-live-in-your-household/921543/10 "2020-09-26T22:11:41Z")
I have been living on my own for 16 years and I’m happy with it. ---
**Author:** ![MissTake](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/misstake/32/3189_2.png) [@MissTake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MissTake)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2020, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-how-many-people-live-in-your-household/921543/11 "2020-09-27T02:49:25Z")
Me, myself, and I. ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2020, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-how-many-people-live-in-your-household/921543/12 "2020-09-27T03:14:22Z")
Please clarify? How are schizophrenics and multi-personalities to be counted? ---
**Author:** ![squeegee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/squeegee/32/14537_2.png) [@squeegee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/squeegee)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2020, 6:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-how-many-people-live-in-your-household/921543/13 "2020-09-27T06:20:00Z")
3+ (roommates) ---
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2020, 6:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-how-many-people-live-in-your-household/921543/14 "2020-09-27T06:27:39Z")
My wife and I, ever since our youngest daughter left for college in 2005. Not counting them coming back for summer or time between moves waiting for the visa for my son-in-law. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2020, 9:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-how-many-people-live-in-your-household/921543/15 "2020-09-27T09:26:37Z")
Due to short-term necessity that has turned into an eternity, I had to move in with housemates five years ago. I was hoping by now to have my own place again, but still no prospects for that even after all this time. Currently there are three others here along with me. ---
**Author:** ![pullin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c57346/32.png) [@pullin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pullin)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2020, 10:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-how-many-people-live-in-your-household/921543/16 "2020-09-27T10:23:04Z")
Roughly 6 months prior to Covid, we invited our college-age daughter to return to the house. Due to crime rates and other changes near the campus, we thought it better to do the 50 mile commute than live there. As you might guess, this decision saved a f-ton of room/board money now that all classes are virtual, and we don’t even have to spend the gas/toll money. So we went from empty nesters to a household of 3 for a short time. Next fall she heads off to her PhD program many hundreds of miles away and we return to just two in the house. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2020, 10:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-how-many-people-live-in-your-household/921543/17 "2020-09-27T10:34:50Z")
Just the two of us (couple). 👬 ---
**Author:** ![Trinopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/2bfe46/32.png) [@Trinopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trinopus)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2020, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-how-many-people-live-in-your-household/921543/18 "2020-09-27T16:57:04Z")
Got a roomie, but we ain’t a “couple.” ---
**Author:** ![squeegee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/squeegee/32/14537_2.png) [@squeegee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/squeegee)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2020, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-how-many-people-live-in-your-household/921543/19 "2020-09-27T16:59:34Z")
So vote “2 (roommates)”. That’s why it’s there. ---
**Author:** ![Trinopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/2bfe46/32.png) [@Trinopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trinopus)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2020, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-how-many-people-live-in-your-household/921543/20 "2020-09-27T17:01:38Z")
Sorry, completely missed that. I saw 1…2…and voted 2, figuring the next one could only be 3… (I blame the poll design 10% and me 89%.) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-how-many-people-live-in-your-household/921543.md?page=2)