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.

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.