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Increases in property rents is making it harder to leave home.
Only 15% of young locals can afford to leave home before the age of 30

Only 15% of young locals can afford to leave home before the age of 30

Low salaries, increasing rents and persistent, high youth unemployment means Malaga province has the fewest in Andalucía living away from the family home

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Friday, 28 July 2017, 18:06

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Only 15 in every hundred young people aged between 16 and 29 who lives in Malaga province is able to leave home before the age of thirty, new data has shown.

This is one of the lowest levels in all of Andalucía, which, in turn has one of the lowest levels in all of Spain. At a regional level, 17.4% of young people have set up their own home, compared to 19.5% at a national level.

According to the 2016 report, published by the Andalusian youth council, a grouping of regional youth representatives, and presented in Malaga on Tuesday this week, the low levels in the area are due to the clash between low average salaries earned by young people and the relatively high cost of renting locally.

The average take-home salary of a young resident under 30 in Malaga province is 781 euros a month, the lowest in all Andalucía. Whereas average rent is 635 euros a month.

To add to this conundrum is the high level of youth unemployment. Even if the level has fallen, it is still high;almost 40%in Malaga, although this is lower than the Andalusian youth unemployment figure of 43%. Many new jobs are on part-time or temporary contracts as well.

Moreover, the data is getting worse, with a fall in the percentage of those under 30 who manage to live away from home compared to the last study a year ago.

The reports authors highlighted the differences even within Andalucía. Whereas in Malaga a young person needs 81%of their salary to cover the rent, in the inland Andalusian province of Jaén, only 32% of the average pay packet is taken up renting a home.

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