Census Bureau News -- Unmarried and Single Americans Week Sept. 20-26, 2015
Unmarried and Single Americans Week Sept. 20-26, 2015
PROFILE
AMERICA FACTS FOR FEATURES: CB15-FF.19
Sept. 15, 2015 — 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. 20-26
in 2015) 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
107 million
Number
of unmarried people in America 18 and older in 2014. This group made up 45
percent of all U.S. residents 18 and older.
Percentage
of unmarried U.S. residents 18 and older who were women in 2014; 47 percent
were men. Source:
America’s Families and Living Arrangements: 2014, Table A1 <http://www.census.gov/hhes/families/data/cps2014A.html>
63%
Percentage
of unmarried U.S. residents 18 and older in 2014 who had never been married.
Another 24 percent were divorced, and 13 percent were widowed. Source:
America’s Families and Living Arrangements: 2014, Table A1 <http://www.census.gov/hhes/families/data/cps2014A.html>
18 million
Number
of unmarried U.S. residents 65 and older in 2014. These seniors made up 17 percent
of all unmarried people 18 and older.Source:
America’s Families and Living Arrangements: 2014, Table A1 <http://www.census.gov/hhes/families/data/cps2014A.html>
88
Number
of unmarried men 18 and older for every 100 unmarried women in the United
States in 2014. Source:
America’s Families and Living Arrangements: 2014, Table A1 <http://www.census.gov/hhes/families/data/cps2014A.html>
58 million
Number
of households maintained by unmarried men and women in 2014. These households
comprised 47 percent of households nationwide. Source:
America’s Families and Living Arrangements: 2014, Table A2 <http://www.census.gov/hhes/families/data/cps2014A.html>
34 million
Number
of people who lived alone in 2014. They comprised 28 percent of all households,
up from 17 percent in 1970. Source:
America’s Families and Living Arrangements: 2014, Table HH-4 <http://www.census.gov/hhes/families/files/hh4.xls>
Percentage
of opposite-sex, unmarried-partner couples in 2014 that lived with at least one
biological child of either partner. Source:
America’s Families and Living Arrangements: 2014, Table UC3 <http://www.census.gov/hhes/families/data/cps2014UC.html>
St. Patrick’s Day (March 17)American
Indian/Alaska Native Heritage Month
Asian/Pacific
American Heritage Month (May)(November)
Older
Americans Month (May)Veterans
Mother’s
DayThanksgiving Day
Hurricane
Season Begins (June 1)The Holiday Season (December)
Father’s
Day
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. Questions or comments should be
directed to the Census Bureau’s Public Information Office: telephone:
301-763-3030 or e-mail: <pio@census.gov>.