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No Middle-Class Family Can Live Like ‘The Simpsons’ Anymore, Census Shows

No more trips to Itchy & Scratchy Land

Over the past 36 seasons, The Simpsons has given us episodes about elaborate monorail scams, gun-toting babies and aliens from the planet Rigel 7, but in 2025, the most implausible aspect of the show just might be the family’s comfortable lifestyle. Homer and Marge are able to raise three children on a single income, all while maintaining two cars and a house so massive that they’ve hardly set foot in one of the rooms in nearly four decades. But, according to Australia’s ABC News, the U.S. census data from 2025 illustrates that the show “no longer represents ordinary America.” For one thing, when the animated series first premiered back in 1989, “the ordinary American family household was comprised of 3.16 people — typically two parents and up to two young children.” But in the “decades since, those numbers have slowly been declining as American families have chosen to remain smaller.” Although, to be fair, the Simpsons didn’t exactly plan to have so many kids.

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