Unmarried And Single Facts

The Buckeye Singles Council started “National Singles Week” in Ohio in the 1980s to celebrate single life and recognize singles and their contributions to society.

The week is now widely observed during the third full week of September (Sept. 15-21 in 2013) as “Unmarried and Single Americans Week,” an acknowledgment that many unmarried Americans do not identify with the word “single” because they are parents, have partners or are widowed.

Here are the findings:

103 million

Number of unmarried people in America 18 and older in 2012. This group made up 44.1  percent of all U.S. residents 18 and older.

Source: America’s Families and Living Arrangements: 2012

http://www.census.gov/hhes/families/data/cps2012.html Table A1

53.6%

Percentage of unmarried U.S. residents 18 and older who were women in 2012; 46.4 percent were men.

Source: America’s Families and Living Arrangements: 2012 http://www.census.gov/hhes/families/data/cps2012.html Table A1

62%

Percentage of unmarried U.S. residents 18 and older in 2012 who had never been married. Another 24 percent were divorced, and 14 percent were widowed.

Source: America’s Families and Living Arrangements: 2012

http://www.census.gov/hhes/families/data/cps2012.html Table A1

17 million

Number of unmarried U.S. residents 65 and older in 2012. These seniors made up 16 percent of all unmarried people 18 and older.

Source: America’s Families and Living Arrangements: 2012

http://www.census.gov/hhes/families/data/cps2012.html Table A1

87

Number of unmarried men 18 and older for every 100 unmarried women in the United States in 2012.

Source: America’s Families and Living Arrangements: 2012

http://www.census.gov/hhes/families/data/cps2012.html Table A1

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56 million

Number of households maintained by unmarried men and women in 2012. These households comprised 46 percent of households nationwide.

Source: America’s Families and Living Arrangements: 2012

http://www.census.gov/hhes/families/data/cps2012.html Table A2

33 million

Number of people who lived alone in 2012. They comprised 27 percent of all households, up from 17 percent in 1970.

Source: America’s Families and Living Arrangements: 2012

https://www.census.gov/hhes/families/data/cps2012.html Table H1 and HH-4

36%

Percentage of women age 15 to 50 with a birth in the last 12 months, as of 2011, who were widowed, divorced or never married.

Source: 2011 American Community Survey

http://factfinder2.census.gov/bkmk/table/1.0/en/ACS/11_1YR/DP02http://factfinder.census.gov/ Table DP02

40%

Percentage of opposite-sex, unmarried-partner couples in 2012 that lived with at least one biological child of either partner.

Source: Source: America’s Families and Living Arrangements: 2012

https://www.census.gov/hhes/families/data/cps2012.html Table UC3

804,000

Number of unmarried grandparents who were responsible for most of the basic care of a co-resident grandchild in 2011. Twenty-nine percent of co-resident grandparents responsible for their grandchildren were unmarried.

Source: 2011 American Community Survey

http://factfinder2.census.gov/bkmk/table/1.0/en/ACS/11_1YR/B10057 Table B10057 

6.7 million

Number of unmarried-partner households in 2011. Of this number, 605,000 were same-sex households.

Source: 2011 American Community Survey

http://factfinder2.census.gov/bkmk/table/1.0/en/ACS/11_1YR/B11009 Table B11009