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Single Life 102 million Number of unmarried people in America 18 and older in 2011. This group comprised 44.1 percent of all U.S. residents 18 and older. Source: America’s Families and Living Arrangements: 2011 53% Percentage of unmarried U.S. residents 18 and older who were women in 2011; 47 percent were men. Source: America’s Families and Living Arrangements: 2011 62% Percentage of unmarried U.S. residents 18 and older in 2011 who had never been married. Another 24 percent were divorced, and 14 percent were widowed. Source: America’s Families and Living Arrangements: 2011 17 million Number of unmarried U.S. residents 65 and older in 2011. These seniors comprised 16 percent of all unmarried people 18 and older. Source: America’s Families and Living Arrangements: 2011 89 Number of unmarried men 18 and older for every 100 unmarried women in the United States in 2011. Source: America’s Families and Living Arrangements: 2011 55 million Number of households maintained by unmarried men in 2011. These households comprised 46 percent of households nationwide. Source: America’s Families and Living Arrangements: 2011 33 million Number of people who lived alone in 2011. They comprised 28 percent of all households, up from 17 percent in 1970. Source: America’s Families and Living Arrangements: 2011 Parenting 36% Percentage of women age 15 to 50 with a birth in the last 12 months, as of 2010, who were widowed, divorced or never married. Source: 2010 American Community Survey 13.6 million Number of unmarried parents living with their children in 2011. Of these, 10.0 million were unmarried mothers and 1.7 million were unmarried fathers, and 1.9 million were unmarried couples with at least one shared child. Source: America's Families and Living Arrangements: 2011 40% Percentage of opposite-sex, unmarried-partner households in 2011 that included at least one biological child of either partner. Source: America's Families and Living Arrangements: 2011 820,000 Number of unmarried grandparents who were caregivers for their grandchildren in 2010. They comprised about three in 10 grandparents who were responsible for their grandchildren. Source: 2006-2010 American Community Survey Unmarried Couples 6.8 million Number of unmarried-partner households in 2010. Of this number, 593,000 were same-sex households. Source: 2010 American Community Survey Voters 35% Percentage of voters in the 2010 November election who were unmarried. Source: Voting and Registration in the Election of 2010 38% Percentage of voters in the 2008 presidential election who were unmarried. Source: Voting and Registration in the Election of 2008 Education 33% Percentage of unmarried people 25 and older in 2011 who had a high school diploma or equivalent as their highest level of attainment. Source: Educational Attainment in the United States: 2011 25% Percentage of unmarried people 25 and older in 2011 with a bachelor's degree or more education. Source: Educational Attainment in the United States: 2011 ### For advertising and promotion on HealthNewsDigest.com please contact Mike McCurdy: tvmike13@HealthNewsDigest.com or 877-634-9180 HealthNewsDigest.com is syndicated worldwide, to thousands of journalists in all media, and health-related websites. www.HealthNewsDigest.com Top of Page
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