{"id":13951,"date":"2014-07-08T07:00:47","date_gmt":"2014-07-08T12:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/beta.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/short-reads\/%year%\/%monthnum%\/%day%\/two-of-every-five-u-s-households-have-only-wireless-phones\/"},"modified":"2024-04-14T03:21:12","modified_gmt":"2024-04-14T08:21:12","slug":"two-of-every-five-u-s-households-have-only-wireless-phones","status":"publish","type":"short-read","link":"https:\/\/beta.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/short-reads\/2014\/07\/08\/two-of-every-five-u-s-households-have-only-wireless-phones\/","title":{"rendered":"CDC: Two of every five U.S. households have only wireless phones"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/assets.pewresearch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2014\/07\/wirelessOnly1.png\"><img data-dominant-color=\"f4f2f1\" data-has-transparency=\"false\" style=\"--dominant-color: #f4f2f1;\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"500\"  srcset=\"https:\/\/beta.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2014\/07\/wirelessOnly1.png?resize=480,375 480w, https:\/\/beta.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2014\/07\/wirelessOnly1.png?resize=640,500 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 480px, (max-width: 782px) 782px, 640px\" class=\"wp-image-25872 not-transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/beta.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2014\/07\/wirelessOnly1.png\" alt=\"wirelessOnly\" ><\/a><\/figure>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">More Americans than ever have cut the (telephone) cord, but the growth rate of wireless-only households slowed last year.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">About two-in-five (41%) of U.S. households had only wireless phones in the second half of 2013, according to a report released today by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/data\/nhis\/earlyrelease\/wireless201407.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">National Center for Health Statistics<\/a>. The center, the statistical arm of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, estimated that 39.1% of adults and 47.1% of children lived in wireless-only households.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The share\u00a0of wireless-only households was\u00a02.8 percentage points higher than the same period in 2012. That&#8217;s slower than in previous years. In 2010, the wireless-only share grew by 5.2 percentage points; 4.3 percentage points in 2011; and 4.2 percentage points in 2012.<!--more--><\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As one might expect, young adults are the most likely to be living the wireless-only lifestyle. Nearly two-thirds (65.7%) of 25- to 29-year-olds, 59.7% of 30- to 34-year-olds, and 53% of 18- to 24-year-olds live in wireless-only households, according to the center. However, those percentages are little changed &#8212; and in some cases even below &#8212; those recorded in the first half of 2013.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">However, as more people in older age brackets go wireless-only, the stereotype of cord-cutters as footloose Millennials is becoming less accurate. In the second half of 2010, more than half (52.5%) of people in wireless-only households were aged 18-34; in the most recent report, only 45.5% were.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A majority (56.2%) of poor households have no landline service, the only economic group for which that&#8217;s true. Hispanics were the racial\/ethnic group that was most likely to be wireless-only &#8212; 53.1% lived in households with no landline phone.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">People in the Northeast were considerably less likely than residents of other regions to be wireless-only. Just a quarter (24.9%) of Northeasterners reported living in households with no landline phone, versus more than 40% in the Midwest, West and South. An analysis last year of first-half 2013 data found that Idaho had the <a href=\"https:\/\/beta.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/short-reads\/2013\/12\/23\/for-most-wireless-only-households-look-south-and-west\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">highest percentage of wireless-only households<\/a> &#8212; 52.3% &#8212; while New Jersey had the lowest at 19.4%.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two of every five U.S. households have no landline phones, but the growth rate of cord-cutting slowed last 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