America Counts: Stories Behind the Numbers
For First Time, Same-Sex Couples In Current Population Survey Tables
This year for the first time, the U.S. Census Bureau’s America’s Families and Living Arrangements table package includes estimates of same-sex couples.
The new tables show there are 543,000 same-sex married households and 469,000 same-sex unmarried partner or cohabiting households. That’s a small number compared to the 61.4 million opposite-sex married and eight million opposite-sex unmarried partner households.
The annual release of the table package, which comes from the Current Population Survey's Annual Social and Economic Supplement, details the most recent characteristics of families, households and the living arrangements of adults and children in the United States.
Other Highlights:
- The number of families living with their own children under 18 has declined in the last two decades. Now, 41% of all families live with their own children under 18, compared to 45% in 2009, and 48% in 1999.
- In 2019, 32% of all adults age 15 and over have never been married, up from 23% in 1950.
- Over a quarter (26%) of children under the age of 15 who live in married-couple families have a stay-at-home mother, compared to only 1% with a stay-at-home father.
- Over half (54%) of young adults ages 18 to 24 live in their parental home, compared to 16% of young adults ages 25 to 34.
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