About 25 percent of adults with debt in the U.S. anticipate taking that debt with them to the grave, according to a CreditCards.com survey reported by Axios on Wednesday.
More than 65 percent of adult respondents in debt said they were unsure if or when they would ever get out of debt, a slight decrease from last year's 68 percent, the study found.
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The most common type of debt comes from mortgages, which 54 percent of U.S. adults have. Without including mortgages, millennials have an average personal debt load of $32,000, per Axios. Median earnings among millennials are still barely above what baby boomers were making at the same age.
The poll surveyed 1,000 adults in interviews between Dec. 7-9, 2018. The margin of error is 3 percentage points. See more results at CreditCards.com.
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