Married couple households still the majority but share varied by geography in 2021. Learn more in this America Counts story.





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The Share of Coupled Households in Your County and the Nation

Despite a decades-long decline, coupled households remained the most common type of U.S. living arrangement in 2020 though shares varied across states and counties.

A recently released data visualization, Coupled Households in the United States: 2017-2021, shows the county-level distribution of four types of coupled households in the United States:


* Opposite-sex married couple households made up the greatest share (86.8%).
* Opposite-sex unmarried partner (or cohabiting) households were the next largest share (11.6%).
* Same-sex married couple households made up 0.9%.
* Same-sex unmarried partner households accounted for the smallest share (0.6%) of coupled households.

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In 2019, the American Community Survey added separate categories for same-sex and opposite-sex spouses and unmarried partners, resulting in a more accurate picture of the nation?s coupled households.

While the Census Bureau provides detailed couple-type information in tables available on data.census.gov, this visualization provides the county level information about the prevalence of opposite- and same-sex married- and unmarried-couple households.

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* Same-sex coupled households



Data Viz: Coupled Households by County, 2017-2021

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