Single by the Numbers

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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