All the single ladies: Washington, D.C., has the highest ratio of unmarried women to unmarried men. Learn more in this America Counts story.





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More Unmarried Women Than Unmarried Men in the U.S.?

The odds of finding a potential mate in the United States were in men?s favor in 2019; there were 89.8 unmarried men for every 100 unmarried women, according to a new U.S. Census Bureau analysis.

In this article, the unmarried population includes people age 18 and over who were never married, widowed or divorced, regardless of their sexual orientation.

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Go to the nation?s capital, Washington, D.C., for one of the lowest ratios of unmarried men to women: 80 unmarried men for every 100 unmarried women. Head north to Alaska to find the opposite: 117 available men for every 100 women.

Ratios of unmarried men to women matter because people interested in romantic partnerships select from a pool of eligible candidates available to them, often called a ?marriage market.? The more eligible partners in a given market, the better the chances of forging a romantic partnership or marriage.

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* Where the odds of finding potential mates are highest
* Ratios of unmarried men to women by race and Hispanic origin
* Ratios of unmarried men to women by age
* Labor markets affecting the pool of unmarried men and women

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Unmarried Ratio of Men to Women Aged 18 and Over by Race and Hispanic Origin and State
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