Nationally, 3.7% of households have a grandparent who is living with their grandchildren (called coresident). For some grandparents, living with their grandchildren means also being responsible for them. According to the 2022 American Community Survey (ACS) 5-year estimates, between 2017 and 2022 in Kentucky there were an estimated 51,247 (+/- 2,009) grandparents who both lived with and had responsibility for their grandchildren. Of these, around two thirds were women and about one quarter had an income that was below poverty. 

For more on grandparents living with their grandchildren, see the Census Bureau’s resources at:

https://www.census.gov/library/publications/2024/demo/p20-588.html  

For help in understanding the margin of error (the number in parentheses), see

“And Now for the Grain of Salt: Margins of Error and the American Community Survey” at

https://kybtn.ca.uky.edu/content/publications  

County Data Sheets

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Kentucky

Adair County through Boyd County                                 Boyle County through Carlisle County

Carroll County through Daviess County                          Edmonson County through Garrard County

Grant County through Hart County                                 Henderson County through Knott County

Knox County through Livingston County                         Logan County through Martin County

Mason County through Nelson County                           Nicholas County through Pulaski County

Robertson County through Todd County                         Trigg County through Woodford County

Data Source

These data are from Table S1002 from the 2022 American Community Survey 5-year estimates.

Additional data are available at: https://data.census.gov