How Do Your Student Loans Stack Up to the Average 25-34 Year Old?
Yahoo Finance·2026-01-23 00:12

KEY TAKEAWAYS About 14.3 million federal student loan borrowers are aged 25 to 34, with the average balance for this age group at 33,566.PaymentpausesandlawsuitsagainsttheSavingonaValuableEducationrepaymentplanhavemaderepaymentschedulesunusuallychaotic.AsofSeptember2025,therewereabout14.3millionborrowersaged25to34,owingatotalof33,566. Payment pauses and lawsuits against the Saving on a Valuable Education repayment plan have made repayment schedules unusually chaotic. As of September 2025, there were about 14.3 million borrowers aged 25 to 34, owing a total of 480 billion in federal student loans, according to data from the Department of Education. The average borrower in this age group has a ...