recent YORK — If you’re planning on ringing in the recent year quietly at home, you’re not alone.

A majority of U.S adults intend to celebrate recent Year’s Eve at home, according to a recent poll by The Associated Press-NORC Center for community Affairs Research.

“As I’ve gotten older over the last few years, it’s like if I don’t make it to midnight, it’s not a large deal, you recognize?” says Carla Woods, 70, from Vinton, Iowa.

Nearly 2 in 10 will be celebrating at a partner or household member’s home, and just 5% schedule to leave out to celebrate at a bar, restaurant or organized occurrence, the poll found.

But many U.S. adults will celebrate the recent year in a different way — by making a resolution. More than half declare they’ll make at least one resolution for 2025.

There’s some optimism about the year ahead, although more than half aren’t expecting a positive transformation. About 4 in 10 declare 2025 will be a better year for them personally. About one-third don’t expect much of a difference between 2024 and 2025, and about one-quarter ponder 2025 will be a worse year than 2024.

Kourtney Kershaw, a 32-year-ancient bartender in Chicago, often fields questions from customers and friends about upcoming events for recent Year’s Eve. She said this year is trending toward low-key.

“A majority of who I’ve spoken to in my age range, they desire to leave out, but they don’t recognize what they’re going to do because they haven’t found anything or things are just really expensive,” she said. “event packages or an entry fee are like a turnoff, especially with the climate of the globe and how much things expense.”

As expected, younger people are more interested in ringing in the recent year at a bar or organized occurrence — about 1 in 10 U.S. adults under 30 declare they schedule to do that. But about 3 in 10 older adults — 60 and above — declare they won’t celebrate the beginning of 2025 at all.

Anthony Tremblay, 35, from Pittsburgh, doesn’t usually leave out to toast the arrival of the recent year, but this year he’s got something special cooked up: He and his wife will be traveling through Ireland.

“I don’t do anything too crazy for recent Year’s, usually. So this is definitely a transformation,” he said. “I wanted to do something distinctive this year, so I did.”

Woods will be working recent Year’s Eve and recent Year’s Day. She answers calls on The Iowa Warmline, a confidential, noncrisis listening line for people struggling with mental health or substance use issues.

“Holidays are really challenging for people, so I don’t mind working,” she said. “I’m passionate about it because I have mental health issues in the household and so being able to assist people is rewarding to me.”

Every recent Year’s also triggers the eternal debate about resolutions. A majority of U.S. adults declare they intend to make a recent Year’s resolution of some type, but millennials and Gen Z are especially likely to be on board — about two-thirds expect to do so, compared to about half of older adults. Women are also more likely than men to declare they will set a objective for 2025.

Tremblay hopes to misplace some weight and focus more on self-worry — more sleep, meditation and breathing exercises. “It’s probably a excellent year to focus on mental health,” he said.

Many others consent. About 3 in 10 adults choose resolutions involving exercise or eating healthier. About one-quarter said they’ll make a resolution involving losing weight and a similar number said they’ll resolve to make changes about priorities of money or mental health.

Woods’ resolutions are to remain social and energetic. As a mental health counselor, she knows those are key to a joyful 2025 and beyond: “Probably one of my biggest resolutions is trying to make sure I remain social, try to get out at least once a week — get out and either have coffee or do something with a partner. That’s not only for the physical but also for the mental health part.”

Kershaw, the bartender, says weight deficit and better health are the top resolutions she hears people make. “Mental health is the recent one, but I ponder it’s high up there as well as with regular health,” she said.

She prefers more objective-oriented resolutions and, this period, it’s to do more traveling and view more of the globe: “I don’t recognize if that’s really a resolution, but that’s a objective that I’m setting.”

And how will she welcome the arrival of 2025? Usually, she takes the night off and stays home watching movies with plenty of snacks, but this year Kershaw has a different schedule, maybe one of the most Chicago things you can do.

This die-challenging sports fan will be at Wrigley Field on Tuesday watching the Chicago Blackhawks receive on the St. Louis Blues. “Hockey’s my favorite sport. So I will be watching hockey and bringing in the recent year,” she said.

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The AP-NORC poll of 1,251 adults was conducted Dec. 5-9, 2024, using a sample drawn from NORC’s probability-based AmeriSpeak Panel, which is designed to be representative of the U.S. population. The markup of sampling error for adults overall is plus or minus 3.7 percentage points.

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Sanders reported from Washington.