30.8
2025 (latest)
MEDIAN AGE AT FIRST MARRIAGE, MEN
years · 1890–2025 · neither direction is "better" · U.S. Census Bureau, historical family and living-arrangement tables
26.1
1890
30.8
high · 2025
22.5
low · 1956
+4.7 yrs
since 1890
menwomen
┊ 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. Decennial observations before 1947 and annual CPS thereafter; same-sex marriages included from 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/ms2.xls
- https://github.com/danielmiessler/substrate/tree/main/Data/US-Family-And-Society
Data
| Year | Median age at first marriage, men | Median age at first marriage, women | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 30.8 | 28.4 | +0.6 yrs |
| 2024 | 30.2 | 28.6 | +0.0 yrs |
| 2023 | 30.2 | 28.4 | +0.1 yrs |
| 2022 | 30.1 | 28.2 | −0.2 yrs |
| 2021 | 30.3 | 28.6 | −0.2 yrs |
| 2020 | 30.5 | 28.1 | +0.7 yrs |
| 2019 | 29.8 | 28.0 | +0.0 yrs |
| 2018 | 29.8 | 27.8 | +0.3 yrs |
| 2017 | 29.5 | 27.4 | +0.0 yrs |
| 2016 | 29.5 | 27.4 | +0.3 yrs |
| 2015 | 29.2 | 27.1 | −0.1 yrs |
| 2014 | 29.3 | 27.0 | +0.3 yrs |
| 2013 | 29.0 | 26.6 | +0.4 yrs |
| 2012 | 28.6 | 26.6 | +0.2 yrs |
| 2011 | 28.4 | 26.4 | +0.2 yrs |
| 2010 | 28.2 | 26.1 | +0.1 yrs |
| 2009 | 28.1 | 25.9 | +0.5 yrs |
| 2008 | 27.6 | 25.9 | +0.1 yrs |
| 2007 | 27.5 | 25.6 | +0.0 yrs |
| 2006 | 27.5 | 25.5 | +0.4 yrs |
| 2005 | 27.1 | 25.3 | −0.3 yrs |
| 2004 | 27.4 | 25.3 | +0.3 yrs |
| 2003 | 27.1 | 25.3 | +0.2 yrs |
| 2002 | 26.9 | 25.3 | +0.0 yrs |
| 2001 | 26.9 | 25.1 | +0.1 yrs |
| 2000 | 26.8 | 25.1 | −0.1 yrs |
| 1999 | 26.9 | 25.1 | +0.2 yrs |
| 1998 | 26.7 | 25.0 | −0.1 yrs |
| 1997 | 26.8 | 25.0 | −0.3 yrs |
| 1996 | 27.1 | 24.8 | +0.2 yrs |
| 1995 | 26.9 | 24.5 | +0.2 yrs |
| 1994 | 26.7 | 24.5 | +0.2 yrs |
| 1993 | 26.5 | 24.5 | +0.0 yrs |
| 1992 | 26.5 | 24.4 | +0.2 yrs |
| 1991 | 26.3 | 24.1 | +0.2 yrs |
| 1990 | 26.1 | 23.9 | −0.1 yrs |
| 1989 | 26.2 | 23.8 | +0.3 yrs |
| 1988 | 25.9 | 23.6 | +0.1 yrs |
| 1987 | 25.8 | 23.6 | +0.1 yrs |
| 1986 | 25.7 | 23.1 | +0.2 yrs |
| 1985 | 25.5 | 23.3 | +0.1 yrs |
| 1984 | 25.4 | 23.0 | +0.0 yrs |
| 1983 | 25.4 | 22.8 | +0.2 yrs |
| 1982 | 25.2 | 22.5 | +0.4 yrs |
| 1981 | 24.8 | 22.3 | +0.1 yrs |
| 1980 | 24.7 | 22.0 | +0.3 yrs |
| 1979 | 24.4 | 22.1 | +0.2 yrs |
| 1978 | 24.2 | 21.8 | +0.2 yrs |
| 1977 | 24.0 | 21.6 | +0.2 yrs |
| 1976 | 23.8 | 21.3 | +0.3 yrs |
| 1975 | 23.5 | 21.1 | +0.4 yrs |
| 1974 | 23.1 | 21.1 | −0.1 yrs |
| 1973 | 23.2 | 21.0 | −0.1 yrs |
| 1972 | 23.3 | 20.9 | +0.2 yrs |
| 1971 | 23.1 | 20.9 | −0.1 yrs |
| 1970 | 23.2 | 20.8 | +0.0 yrs |
| 1969 | 23.2 | 20.8 | +0.1 yrs |
| 1968 | 23.1 | 20.8 | +0.0 yrs |
| 1967 | 23.1 | 20.6 | +0.3 yrs |
| 1966 | 22.8 | 20.5 | +0.0 yrs |
| 1965 | 22.8 | 20.6 | −0.3 yrs |
| 1964 | 23.1 | 20.5 | +0.3 yrs |
| 1963 | 22.8 | 20.5 | +0.1 yrs |
| 1962 | 22.7 | 20.3 | −0.1 yrs |
| 1961 | 22.8 | 20.3 | +0.0 yrs |
| 1960 | 22.8 | 20.3 | +0.3 yrs |
| 1959 | 22.5 | 20.2 | −0.1 yrs |
| 1958 | 22.6 | 20.2 | +0.0 yrs |
| 1957 | 22.6 | 20.3 | +0.1 yrs |
| 1956 | 22.5 | 20.1 | −0.1 yrs |
| 1955 | 22.6 | 20.2 | −0.4 yrs |
| 1954 | 23.0 | 20.3 | +0.2 yrs |
| 1953 | 22.8 | 20.2 | −0.2 yrs |
| 1952 | 23.0 | 20.2 | +0.1 yrs |
| 1951 | 22.9 | 20.4 | +0.1 yrs |
| 1950 | 22.8 | 20.3 | +0.1 yrs |
| 1949 | 22.7 | 20.3 | −0.6 yrs |
| 1948 | 23.3 | 20.4 | −0.4 yrs |
| 1947 | 23.7 | 20.5 | −0.6 yrs |
| 1940 | 24.3 | 21.5 | +0.0 yrs |
| 1930 | 24.3 | 21.3 | −0.3 yrs |
| 1920 | 24.6 | 21.2 | −0.5 yrs |
| 1910 | 25.1 | 21.6 | −0.8 yrs |
| 1900 | 25.9 | 21.9 | −0.2 yrs |
| 1890 | 26.1 | 22.0 | — |
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