 CB14-FF.21 July 30, 2014 Unmarried and Single Americans Week Sept. 21-27, 2014 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. 21-27 in 2014) 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 105 million Number of unmarried people in America 18 and older in 2013. This group made up 44 percent of all U.S. residents 18 and older.
Source: America's Families and Living Arrangements: 2013 <http://www.census.gov/hhes/families/data/cps2013A.html> Table A1 53% Percentage of unmarried U.S. residents 18 and older who were women in 2013; 47 percent were men.Source: America's Families and Living Arrangements: 2013 <http://www.census.gov/hhes/families/data/cps2013A.html> Table A1 62% Percentage of unmarried U.S. residents 18 and older in 2013 who had never been married. Another 24 percent were divorced, and 14 percent were widowed. Source: America's Families and Living Arrangements: 2013 <http://www.census.gov/hhes/families/data/cps2013A.html> Table A1 18 million Number of unmarried U.S. residents 65 and older in 2013. These seniors made up 17 percent of all unmarried people 18 and older. Source: America's Families and Living Arrangements: 2013 <http://www.census.gov/hhes/families/data/cps2013A.html> Table A1 87 Number of unmarried men 18 and older for every 100 unmarried women in the United States in 2013. Source: America's Families and Living Arrangements: 2013 <http://www.census.gov/hhes/families/data/cps2013A.html> Table A1 57 million Number of households maintained by unmarried men and women in 2013. These households comprised 46 percent of households nationwide. Source: America's Families and Living Arrangements: 2013 <http://www.census.gov/hhes/families/data/cps2013A.html> Table A2 34 million Number of people who lived alone in 2013. They comprised 27 percent of all households, up from 17 percent in 1970. Source: America's Families and Living Arrangements: 2013 <http://www.census.gov/hhes/families/files/hh4.xls> Table HH-4 Parenting 36% Percentage of women 15 to 50 with a birth in the last 12 months, as of 2012, who were widowed, divorced or never married. Source: 2012 American Community Survey <http://factfinder2.census.gov/bkmk/table/1.0/en/ACS/12_1YR/DP02> Table DP02 39% Percentage of opposite-sex, unmarried-partner couples in 2013 that lived with at least one biological child of either partner. Source: America's Families and Living Arrangements: 2013 <http://www.census.gov/hhes/families/files/cps2013/tabUC3-all.xls> Table UC3 816,000 Number of unmarried grandparents who were responsible for most of the basic care of a coresident grandchild in 2012. Thirty percent of coresident grandparents responsible for their grandchildren were unmarried. Source: 2012 American Community Survey <http://factfinder2.census.gov/bkmk/table/1.0/en/ACS/12_1YR/B10057> Table B10057 Unmarried Couples 7 million Number of unmarried-partner households in 2012. Of this number, 639,000 were same-sex households. Source: 2012 American Community Survey <http://factfinder2.census.gov/bkmk/table/1.0/en/ACS/12_1YR/B11009> Table B11009 Voters 39% Percentage of voters in the 2012 presidential election who were unmarried, compared to 24 percent of voters in the 1972 presidential election. Source: Voting and Registration in the Election of 2012 <http://www.census.gov/hhes/www/socdemo/voting/publications/p20/2012/tables.html> Table 9 35% Percentage of voters in the 2010 November congressional election who were unmarried. Source: Voting and Registration in the Election of 2010 <http://www.census.gov/hhes/www/socdemo/voting/publications/p20/2010/tables.html> Table 9 Education 32% Percentage of unmarried people 25 and older in 2013 who had a high school diploma or equivalent as their highest level of attainment. Source: Educational Attainment in the United States: 2013 <http://www.census.gov/hhes/socdemo/education/data/cps/2013/tables.html> Table 2 26% Percentage of unmarried people 25 and older in 2013 with a bachelor's degree or more education. Source: Educational Attainment in the United States: 2013 <http://www.census.gov/hhes/socdemo/education/data/cps/2013/tables.html> Table 2 Following is a list of observances typically covered by the Census Bureau's Facts for Features series: African-American History Month (February) Labor Day Super Bowl Grandparents 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)/ Halloween (Oct. 31) St. Patrick's Day (March 17) American Indian/Alaska Native Heritage
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Asian/Pacific American Heritage Month (May) (November) Older Americans Month (May) Veterans Day (Nov. 11) Cinco de Mayo (May 5) Thanksgiving Day Mother's Day The Holiday Season (December) Hurricane Season Begins (June 1) 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>. | 
