Despite some slight improvements in the economy and job market since the heart of the recession hit, it appears more and more millenials are still living at home with their parents according to a new Pew study.  

According to the study, 18-34-year-olds are less likely to be living apart from their family members than they were even during the worst depths of the recent recession.  

"Young adults were the age group that was hardest hit by the Great Recession," Richard Fry, a senior researcher at Pew said. "They're not fully healed from the damages." 

The data in the study found that in 2010, 69 percent of 18-to-34-year-olds lived on their own, but in the first four months of this year found that that number had decreased down to 67 percent. Conversely, those who live in their parents' homes has increased from 24 percent to 26 percent.  

In addition, the numbers of millenials in the population has grown by nearly three million since 2007, making the decrease in numbers heading their own households more alarming.  

The unemployment rate for young adults has also declined, with those earning college degrees more inclined to securing higher-paying jobs, but even those adults have been more likely to live with their families still today than they did in 2010.  

Housing analysts have been counting on millenials to help life the still struggling housing market by buying their own condos or houses, and moving out of rental apartments and family homes, but the study appears to show that it isn't happening.  

"We need the millenials to start leaving their parents' homes and start out on their own for the housing market to normalize," Mark Zandi, chief economist at Moody's Analytics said. "This is going to be a problem if it continues." 

However, Zandi also noted that millenials are beginning to form their households on their own, but they've been mainly going into rentals, which has stalled numbers.  

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