REACH YOUR COMMUNITY BY REACHING SINGLES
Single Adults are the largest unreached people group in your community in 2023. Single-person households have increased more than fivefold since 1960. In 2022 only 47% of households had married couples, a significant drop from 74% in 1960.
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Americans are Single
127 Million Singles
Singles now outnumber married adults over the age of 18.
Bureau of Labor and Statistics 2022
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30 Men, 28 Female
29.8 is the average age for a first marriage for men and 27.8 for women as of 2022. This has increased every year for the past 25 years with a major increase since 2007.
Census 2022
23% of Churchgoers are Single
Less than a quarter of your church is single, but your community is over 40% single.
Barna Trends
Percentage of unmarried U.S. residents 18 and older in 2022 at different stages of singleness.
Census 2022
Single Focused Conference
One day Can Change Your Church
- Singles -
Never Married Adults 22+
More Adults Live Alone
Number of people who lived alone in 2021. They comprised 28 percent of all households, up from 17 percent in 1970.
America’s Families and Living Arrangements: 2021
Adults 18+ Single
Unmarried people in America 18 and older in 2021. This group comprised 53 percent of all U.S. residents 18 and older.
America’s Families and Living Arrangements: 2021
- Collegiate Singles​ -
Singles Ages 18-22
26 Years Old
The average age of college students is now 25 years old
College Ranker 2024
Most Collegiates Live at Home
Adults ages 18 to 24 live in the parental home, compared to 16 percent of young adults ages 25 to 34
America’s Families and Living Arrangements: 2021
- Dating Singles -
Actively Seeking to Find a Relationship
Most Singles Want to be Married... Someday
Among adults who have never been married, 58% say they would like to get married someday and 27% are not sure if they want to get married. Still, 14% say they do not want to get married, according to a Pew Research Center survey
Pew Research 2017
#1 Factor for Men Choosing a Mate
Raising children is the most important consideration when choosing a partner for men
Statista: Factors important to dating
- Engaged Singles -
Ring is on the Finger
14 Month Engagement
The average length of an engagement in America is 12-18 months. 2/3 of women want their man to ask their father for permission to marry them and 69% of couples have known each other for 3 or more years.
Wedding Industry Stats
Most Singles Cohabitated at Least Once
While the share who are currently cohabiting remains far smaller than the share who are married, the share of adults ages 18 to 44 who have ever lived with an unmarried partner (59%) has surpassed the share who has ever been married (50%)
Pewresearch.org 2021
Single Focused Conference
Single Adults are the largest unreached people group in your community in 2023
- Divorced Singles -
Single Again
3 Years to Remarry After Divorce
Singles adults who are divorced remarry just over 3 years after their last divorce, on average.
Census.gov, DivorceStatistics.org
45% First Time Marriages End in Divorce
43-45% of first marriages end in divorce, and that percentage only rises with each re-marriage.
CDC.gov
- Single Parents -
Parenting Alone
40% of all Parents are Single Parents
In 1980, some 18 percent of all women in the United States who gave birth were unmarried. As of 2020, the percentage of births to unmarried women has increased to 40.5 percent. The number of single-parent households has substantially increased over the past decades. For instance, there were only 1.5 million single-parent households in 1950 compared to 9.8 million in 2023
America’s Families and Living Arrangements: 2020
67 % Less Single vs Married Household Income
Median family income of married-couple families with children was about $101,560 in 2021, whereas their single-father counterparts had median total family income of $50,942 and single-mother counterparts had just $32,586.
Census 2021
- Widows -
Unexpectedly Single Again
57 Year Old Widow
The average age of a widow is 57
Census.gov, Widows Bridge
80% Are Women
Women are more likely to be widowed than men comprising 8 in 10 windows.
Census.gov, 2019
- Same-Sex Attraction Singles -
SSA and LGBTQ+
Same-Sex Households
There are 710,00 same-sex married couple households and 500,000 households with same-sex unmarried partners living together. In addition, 191,000 children live with same-sex parents.
2021 US Census
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8-11% LGBT
Brief estimates of the size of the LGBT population in the U.S. based on data collected through 11 surveys conducted in the U.S. estimate 25.6 million adults over 18 are lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender, between 8 and 11% of the total population.Â
Williams Institute 2011