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America Counts: Stories Behind the Numbers
Where Do Male and Female Same-Sex Couples Live?
Men in same-sex couples don?t always live in the same parts of the country as women in same-sex couples, according to 2020 Census data that show where same-sex couple households live within each state by sex.
Overall, female same-sex couples made up 0.9% of U.S. coupled households and male same-sex couples made up an additional 0.8% of U.S. coupled households in 2020. For both sexes, these coupled households were often in and around the population centers of each state.
County-level maps show higher percentages of both types of same-sex couples in Florida, the Northeast, and on the West Coast. Counties in those regions also had the highest number of same-sex couples and counties with the highest percentage of same-sex coupled households.
Continue reading to learn more about where same-sex couples live.
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