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Majority of Household Population Lived in Coupled Households in 2020

Despite coupled households making up a decreasing share of U.S. households in recent decades, they still made up the majority: approximately 215 million people were living in coupled households in 2020, roughly 67% of the household population of 323 million.

Coupled households are those in which the householder has a spouse or cohabiting partner living with them. Each type of coupled households — married or cohabiting — may contain either an opposite-sex or same-sex couple.

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The 2020 Census Supplemental Demographic and Housing Characteristics File (S-DHC) released today shows that about 99% of people in coupled households (212 million) lived in opposite-sex couple households, while the remaining 1% lived in same-sex couple households.

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