WASHINGTON, Aug. 26, 2016 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The
Buckeye Singles Council started "National Singles Week" in
Ohio in the 1980s to celebrate
single life and recognize singles and their contributions to
society. The week is now widely observed during the third full week
of September (Sept. 18-24 in 2016) as
"Unmarried and Single Americans Week," an acknowledgment that many
unmarried Americans do not identify with the word "single" because
they are parents, have partners or are widowed. In this edition of
Facts for Features, unmarried people include those who were never
married, widowed or divorced, unless otherwise noted.
Single Life
109 million
The number of unmarried people in America
18 and older in 2015. This group made up 45 percent of all U.S.
residents 18 and
older.
Source:
America's Families and Living Arrangements: 2015, Table A1
www.census.gov/hhes/families/data/cps2015A.html
53%
The percentage of unmarried U.S. residents 18 and
older who were women in 2015; 47 percent were men.
Source: America's Families and Living Arrangements: 2015, Table
A1
www.census.gov/hhes/families/data/cps2015A.html
63%
The percentage of unmarried U.S. residents 18 and
older in 2015 who had never been married. Another 24 percent were
divorced and 13 percent were widowed.
Source: America's Families and Living Arrangements: 2015, Table
A1
www.census.gov/hhes/families/data/cps2015A.html
19 million
The number of unmarried U.S. residents 65
and older in 2015. These seniors made up 18 percent of all
unmarried people 18 and older.
Source: America's Families and Living Arrangements: 2015, Table
A1
www.census.gov/hhes/families/data/cps2015A.html
88
The number of unmarried men 18 and older for every
100 unmarried women in the United
States in 2015.
Source: America's Families and Living Arrangements: 2015, Table
A1
www.census.gov/hhes/families/data/cps2015A.html
59 million
The number of households maintained by
unmarried men and women in 2015. These households comprised 47
percent of households nationwide.
Source: America's Families and Living Arrangements: 2015, Table
H1
www.census.gov/hhes/families/data/cps2015A.html
35 million
The number of people who lived alone in
2015. They comprised 28 percent of all households, up from 17
percent in 1970.
Source: America's Families and Living Arrangements: 2015, Table
H-1, America's Families and Living Arrangements: 1960 to Present,
Table HH-4
www.census.gov/hhes/families/data/cps2015H.html
Parenting
36%
The percentage of women age 15 to 50 with a birth
in the last 12 months, as of 2014, who were widowed, divorced or
never married.
Source: 2014 American Community Survey, Table B13002
http://factfinder.census.gov/bkmk/table/1.0/en/ACS/14_5YR/B13002
39%
The percentage of opposite-sex, unmarried-partner
couples in 2015 that lived with at least one biological child of
either partner.
Source: America's Families and Living Arrangements: 2015, Table
UC3
www.census.gov/hhes/families/data/cps2015UC.html
http://www.census.gov/hhes/families/files/cps2013/tabUC3-all.xls
788,730
The number of unmarried grandparents who were
responsible for most of the basic care of a co-resident grandchild
in 2014; 30 percent of coresident grandparents responsible for
their grandchildren were unmarried.
Source: 2014 American Community Survey, Table B10057
http://factfinder.census.gov/faces/tableservices/jsf/pages/productview.xhtml?pid=ACS_14_1YR_B10057&prodType=table
Unmarried Couples
7 million
The number of unmarried-partner households
in 2014. Of this number, 448,271 were same-sex households.
Source: 2014 American Community Survey Table, B11009
http://factfinder.census.gov/bkmk/table/1.0/en/ACS/14_1YR/B11009
Voters
39%
The percentage of voters in the 2012 presidential
election who were unmarried, compared with 24 percent of voters in
the 1972 presidential election.
Source: Voting and Registration in the Election of 2012, Table 9,
and Characteristics of New Voters: 1972
www.census.gov/hhes/www/socdemo/voting/publications/p20/2012/tables.html
www.census.gov/topics/public-sector/voting/data/tables.1972.html
35%
The percentage of voters in the 2014 November
congressional election who were unmarried.
Source: Voting and Registration in the Election of 2014, Table
9
www.census.gov/data/tables/time-series/demo/voting-and-registration/p20-577.html
Education
87%
The percentage of unmarried people 25 and older in
2015 who had completed high school or more education
Source: Educational Attainment in the
United States: 2015, Table 2
www.census.gov/hhes/socdemo/education/data/cps/2015/tables.html
27%
The percentage of unmarried people 25 and older in
2015 with a bachelor's degree or more education.
Source: Educational Attainment in the
United States: 2015, Table 2
www.census.gov/hhes/socdemo/education/data/cps/2015/tables.html
Following is a list of observances typically covered by the
Census Bureau's Facts for Features series:
African-American
History Month (February)
|
Labor Day (1st Monday
in September)
|
Super Bowl (first
Sunday in February)
|
Grandparents Day (1st
Sunday after Labor Day)
|
Valentine's Day (Feb.
14)
|
Hispanic Heritage
Month (Sept. 15-Oct. 15)
|
Women's History Month
(March)
|
Unmarried and Single
Americans Week
|
Irish-American
Heritage Month (March)/
|
(3rd week of
September)
|
St. Patrick's Day
(March 17)
|
Halloween (Oct.
31)
|
Earth Day (April
22)
|
American
Indian/Alaska Native Heritage Month
|
Asian/Pacific
American Heritage Month (May)
|
(November)
|
Older Americans Month
(May)
|
Veterans Day (Nov.
11)
|
Mother's Day (2nd
Sunday in May)
|
Thanksgiving Day (4th
Thursday in November)
|
Hurricane Season
Begins (June 1)
|
The Holiday Season
(December)
|
Father's Day (third
Sunday in June)
|
|
The Fourth of July
(July 4)
|
|
Anniversary of
Americans with Disabilities Act (July 26)
|
|
Back to School
(August)
|
|
Editor's note: The preceding data were collected from a
variety of sources and may be subject to sampling variability and
other sources of error. Facts for Features are customarily released
about two months before an observance in order to accommodate
magazine production timelines.
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