50.4%
2025 (latest)
MARRIED POPULATION AGED 15 AND OLDER
percent · 1950–2025 · neither direction is "better" · computed from the U.S. Census Bureau historical family and living-arrangement tables (counts divided within the same table)
66.6%
1950
67.6%
high · 1960
50.4%
low · 2025
−16 pts
since 1950
┊ dashed lines mark 1979 Oil shock & inflation peak · 1987 Black Monday crash · 1991 Gulf War recession · 2001 Dot-com bust & 9/11 · 2008 Global financial crisis · 2020 COVID-19 pandemic
Method & caveats. Computed from married men plus married women divided by total men plus total women, all races, aged 15 and older. Includes spouse absent and separated. Same-sex married couples included since 2019. Breaks: 2014 ASEC questionnaire redesign; decennial population-control revisions (the publisher's lettered r rows, taken over the original); 2021 appears twice in the tables (the later-method row is taken); 2025 uses Vintage-2025 population controls; 2019 onward includes same-sex married couples.
Sources
Every value on this page is read from the publisher below. Current and historical source documents:
- https://www2.census.gov/programs-surveys/demo/tables/families/time-series/marital/ms1.xls
- https://github.com/danielmiessler/substrate/tree/main/Data/US-Family-And-Society
Data
| Year | Married population aged 15 and older | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 50.4% | −0.4 pts |
| 2024 | 50.8% | +0.0 pts |
| 2023 | 50.8% | +0.0 pts |
| 2022 | 50.8% | −0.0 pts |
| 2021 | 50.8% | −1.3 pts |
| 2020 | 52.0% | −0.2 pts |
| 2019 | 52.3% | +0.2 pts |
| 2018 | 52.1% | −0.3 pts |
| 2017 | 52.4% | +0.3 pts |
| 2016 | 52.1% | −0.3 pts |
| 2015 | 52.4% | −0.2 pts |
| 2014 | 52.6% | −0.1 pts |
| 2013 | 52.7% | −0.4 pts |
| 2012 | 53.0% | −0.3 pts |
| 2011 | 53.3% | −0.3 pts |
| 2010 | 53.6% | −0.8 pts |
| 2009 | 54.4% | +0.2 pts |
| 2008 | 54.1% | −0.9 pts |
| 2007 | 55.1% | +0.2 pts |
| 2006 | 54.8% | −0.4 pts |
| 2005 | 55.2% | −0.2 pts |
| 2004 | 55.4% | −0.2 pts |
| 2003 | 55.6% | −0.1 pts |
| 2002 | 55.7% | −0.5 pts |
| 2001 | 56.2% | −0.0 pts |
| 2000 | 56.2% | −0.0 pts |
| 1999 | 56.2% | −0.1 pts |
| 1998 | 56.4% | +0.0 pts |
| 1997 | 56.3% | −0.6 pts |
| 1996 | 57.0% | −0.5 pts |
| 1995 | 57.5% | +0.1 pts |
| 1994 | 57.4% | −0.7 pts |
| 1993 | 58.1% | −0.6 pts |
| 1990 | 58.7% | −2.3 pts |
| 1980 | 61.0% | −3.3 pts |
| 1970 | 64.2% | −3.3 pts |
| 1960 | 67.6% | +0.9 pts |
| 1950 | 66.6% | — |
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