I have been crunching through so much data about the election, I decided that I wanted to find out more about singles in general, not just unmarried voters. So, I used data from the “2007 American Community Survey 1-Year Estimates” provided by the U.S. Census Bureau to find out some numbers.

 
Men
Women
 
Married
Unmarried
Always Single
Married
Unmarried
Always Single
18 years and over
57%
43%
30%
53%
47%
24%
18 to 39 years
38%
62%
57%
45%
55%
48%
40 years and over
71%
29%
11%
59%
41%
9%

Overall, 45% of Americans are unmarried (never married, widowed, or divorced) – that’s 43% of men and 47% of women. By age 40, this number has dropped to 41% of women and only 29% of men (35% of all Americans 40 years and older). The always single above 40 make up about 10% of each gender.

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