{"id":105036,"date":"2020-06-10T00:03:35","date_gmt":"2020-06-10T07:03:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rentcafe.com\/blog\/?p=105036"},"modified":"2026-04-22T00:57:32","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T07:57:32","slug":"families-with-kids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rentcafe.com\/blog\/rental-market\/market-snapshots\/families-with-kids\/","title":{"rendered":"Quarantine Parenting: Top Family-Centric Cities in the U.S."},"content":{"rendered":"

If living in the midst of a pandemic feels overwhelming to you, try parenting. These days, parents’ duties have multiplied overnight to include working, parenting and home-schooling – all at once. Millions of families left without childcare or schools to send their kids to are compelled to manage on their own, at home, juggling it all, coping, contemplating with dread (some maybe with joy) a few more months of quarantine parenting.<\/p>\n

To find out how many households are in this situation and where they live, we turned to the most recent U.S. Census<\/a> data. According to the estimates, there are 33.4M families with children under 18 and of those, about two thirds are two-parent households, while one third are single parents. As expected, a big part of the total number of parents with kids under 18 is represented by women, 24% (8M), while the rest of 8% (2.7M) is represented by men.<\/p>\n

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We also compared families with young children (mostly babies, toddlers and preschoolers) to those with school-aged children and those that have at least one child from each age category.<\/p>\n

There are almost 14M families with children under 6 years old in the U.S. and this category of parents are finding the current quarantine restrictions especially difficult during these trying times, with small kids requiring most of their time and attention. In fact, a\u00a0recent survey<\/a> conducted by our sister site CommercialCafe revealed that distractions is the most common challenge for Americans working from home.<\/p>\n

But the greatest effect has been on the 26M families with kids aged between 6 and 17, as they have had to deal with homeschooling on top of everything else. With schools nationwide closed since March and a big cloud of uncertainty around when and how schools will reopen safely again, the concern is real for families in every corner of the country. Along with these two categories of parents, there’s also an overlap of 6M homes that have at least one child from each age group.<\/p>\n

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Laredo, TX has the highest share of families with kids<\/h3>\n

Census data allowed us to see what cities are impacted the most. Of the 100 largest U.S. cities, family-friendly Laredo<\/strong>, located on the Mexican border, ranks highly as a great place to raise a family, with a share of 44% families with kids out of the total number of households. Laredo is home to\u00a030,600 families with kids, which represents almost half of the\u00a069,900 total households and most of the families here have school-aged kids aged between 6-17 years.<\/p>\n

By comparison, 28% of households in the U.S. have children, out of the total number of households.<\/p>\n