Insight Into Private Matters

Statistics of private matters.

Americans spend an average of 35 minutes in the bathroom every day.
27 percent of Americans ages 18-24 spend 60 or more minutes in the bathroom each day.
Percent of Americans who admit to singing in the shower: 17.
Baby Boomers, ages 35-44, tend to sing in the shower more than other age groups.
On average, nine out of every 50 Americans does not wash his hands — as only 82 percent of Americans report washing their hands — after using the bathroom.
Of Americans 65 years and older, 97 percent report always washing their hands.
Only 45 percent of Gen Xers, ages 18-24, report washing their hands.
More women, 87 percent, than men, 77 percent, report that they always wash their hands.
Americans say they shower every day, and 6.6 percent say they shower more than once a day.
The average shower lasts five to 10 minutes.
4 percent of Americans shower with the lights off when they shower to begin their days.
Nearly half of American women say their partners never clean the bathroom.
The major bathroom-related pet peeve, garnering 18 percent of the vote, is people who don’t change the toilet paper. Runners up: people who smell up the bathroom (12 percent) and people whom take too long of showers (6.5 percent).
The celebrity whose bathroom Americans most would like to use: Martha Stewart’s.
The celebrity who most Americans would not like to use their own bathroom: Martha Stewart.
— PR Newswire