A third of US homes now cellphone-only, finds NHIS

Key demographic differences

• Nearly 6 in 10 adults aged 25-29 ( 59.6%) lived in households with only wireless telephones. This rate is greater than the rates for adults aged 18-24 ( 48.6%) or 30-34 ( 50.9%). The percentage of adults living in households with only
• Wireless telephones decreased as age increased beyond 35 years: 36.8% for those aged 35-44, 23.8% for those aged 45-64; and 8.5% for those aged 65 and over.
• More than three in four adults living only with unrelated adult roommates ( 77.5%) were in households with only wireless telephones. This rate is nearly twice as high as the rate for adults living alone ( 41.3%) and three times as high as the rate for adults living only with spouses or other adult family members ( 25.1%).
• Men ( 33.7%) were more likely than women ( 30.9%) to be living in households with only wireless telephones.
• Hispanic adults ( 43.3%) were more likely than non-Hispanic white adults ( 29.0%) or non-Hispanic black adults ( 36.8%) to be living in households with only wireless telephones.