New data from the Pew Research Center shows people aged 18 to 24 send a hell of lot of time texting every day. Young adults in that age bracket send an average of 109.5 texts per day, and approximately 3,000 texts per month.
The date does shift with education and income levels — generally, the more of both you have, the less you’re texting:
Interestingly, lower levels of household income are also associated with heavier texting, as adults with a household income of less than $30,000 average 58.7 texts per day, which is 44% more than the next-highest average (40.2), held by adults with a household income of $30,000 to $49,999. However, the highest-income individuals earning $75,000 or more per year have higher daily text average (31.9) than those earning $50,000 to $74,999 (25.9).
Texting is also directly related to education level, peaking at 69.4 per day for adults with less than a high school diploma and steadily decreasing as education level rises to 23.8 among those with a college degree or more.
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