Single Life
107 million
Number of unmarried people in America 18 and older in 2014. This group made up 45 percent of all U.S. residents 18 and older.Source: America’s Families and Living Arrangements: 2014, Table A1
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53%
Percentage of unmarried U.S. residents 18 and older who were women in 2014; 47 percent were men.Source: America’s Families and Living Arrangements: 2014, Table A1
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63%
Percentage of unmarried U.S. residents 18 and older in 2014 who had never been married. Another 24 percent were divorced, and 13 percent were widowed.Source: America’s Families and Living Arrangements: 2014, Table A1
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18 million
Number of unmarried U.S. residents 65 and older in 2014. These seniors made up 17 percent of all unmarried people 18 and older.Source: America’s Families and Living Arrangements: 2014, Table A1
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88
Number of unmarried men 18 and older for every 100 unmarried women in the United States in 2014.Source: America’s Families and Living Arrangements: 2014, Table A1
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58 million
Number of households maintained by unmarried men and women in 2014. These households comprised 47 percent of households nationwide.Source: America’s Families and Living Arrangements: 2014, Table A2
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34 million
Number of people who lived alone in 2014. They comprised 28 percent of all households, up from 17 percent in 1970.Source: America’s Families and Living Arrangements: 2014, Table HH-4
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Parenting
36%
Percentage of women 15 to 50 with a birth in the last 12 months, as of 2014, who were widowed, divorced or never married.Source: 2013 American Community Survey, Table 13002
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39%
Percentage of opposite-sex, unmarried-partner couples in 2014 that lived with at least one biological child of either partner.Source: America’s Families and Living Arrangements: 2014, Table UC3
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806,811
Number of unmarried grandparents who were responsible for most of the basic care of a co-resident grandchild in 2013; 30 percent of coresident grandparents responsible for their grandchildren were unmarried.Source: 2009-2013 American Community Survey, Table B10057
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Unmarried Couples
7 million
Number of unmarried-partner households in 2013. Of this number, 573,530 were same-sex households.Source: 2013 American Community Survey Table, B11009
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Voters
39%
Percentage of voters in the 2012 presidential election who were unmarried, compared with 24 percent of voters in the 1972 presidential election.Source: Voting and Registration in the Election of 2012, Table 9
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35%
Percentage of voters in the 2010 November congressional election who were unmarried.Source: Voting and Registration in the Election of 2010, Table 9
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Education
87%
Percentage of unmarried people 25 and older in 2014 who had completed high school or more educationSource: Educational Attainment in the United States: 2014, Table 2
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27%
Percentage of unmarried people 25 and older in 2014 with a bachelor’s degree or more education.Source: Educational Attainment in the United States: 2014, Table 2
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