The given bar chart illustrates the proportion of people choosing single living among five different age bracket in the US between 1850 and 2000. Overall, living alone became more prevalent through all ages in this period. Notably, while the oldest cohorts (55-64) consistently preferred opting living alone, the reverse tendency can be seen in the youngest group (17-26).
To be more specific, the elderly have the highest tendency to live alone in 1850, at over 2%. This figure gradually increased before experiencing a significant surge at nearly 10% by 1950, and continually climbed to around 17% to end the period. Mirroring this trend, equally beginning at 2.2% in 1850, the tendency become distict by 2000. While people from 27-36 and 37-36 witnessed a moderate increase, there was a significant growth in the latter’s figure to 13% by 2000, which was ten times higher than the former group.
Regarding the group which adopt this trend later, those of 27-36 started to live alone at only 2% before witnessing a sharp climb to 8% in 2000, making them as the third-runner among this age bracket. Only when 1950 did this trend become apparent in the youngest age cohorts, at only 2%. Ultimately, by the year 2000, this data rose to around 5%, which is a marginal gap compared to other age groups.