America is becoming a nation of homebodies

By Brian D. Taylor, Professor of Urban Planning and Public Policy, University of California, Los Angeles
Eric Morris, Professor of City and Regional Planning, Clemson University
Sam Speroni, PhD Student in Urban Planning, University of California, Los Angeles

In his February 2025 cover story for The Atlantic, journalist Derek Thompson dubbed our current era “the anti-social century.”

He isn’t wrong. According to our recent research, the U.S. is becoming a nation of homebodies.

Using data from the American Time Use Survey, we studied how people in the U.S. spent their…

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