In both the 1990 and the 2000 Censuses, the average household size for households with more than one person was 3.25 persons per household. In 1980, that figure was 3.35 persons per household. Because we’re dealing with people, who are indivisible, I’ll round this up and say that the average household contains four people.
In March 1985, when I was born, the Menter household became an average household with a total of 4 people. It held this status for a whopping 19 months before Joshua was born in October of 1986.
Now, after 23 years 7 months and 1 week as a “large household”, the Menter household is again average.
John Menter, age 19, is moving out of my parents’ home this evening–leaving them with only four people in their household.
Introducing the Menters: a dad, a mom, a son, a daughter. At four people, a perfectly average household.
Or maybe it takes a little more than numbers to make a household average.
I certainly hope we’re not merely average!