Statistics

Women want or file for about 69% of American divorces, an estimate that rests on 92 breakups in one survey. Complete court records from England and Wales show the female share peaked at 72.3% in 1992 and has fallen to 63.3%, and our own Census analysis shows what the year after a divorce costs each sex.

Oklahoma has the highest divorce rate in America and Maine the lowest. Our own Census analysis of all 50 states and DC, on both common measures, with margins of error.

The median age at first marriage is now 30.8 for men and 28.8 for women, both records. Where the number comes from, how far it varies by state, and the 1991 crossover almost nobody mentions.

Half of everyone who has ever used a dating app has been in a committed relationship with someone they met there. What the survey and academic data actually support.

Median lifetime partners are 4.3 for US women and 6.3 for US men, plus why the mean runs so much higher and why the gender gap cannot be arithmetically true.

Marriages that end in divorce last a median of 13 years; marriages still in progress have a median duration of 19. Two different numbers, and most coverage confuses them.

How long high school relationships last, how many teenagers date at all, and which widely quoted figures have no primary source behind them.

17% of US newlyweds intermarried in 2015 against 10% of all married Americans, plus why there is no single interracial divorce rate.

Bartenders have the highest divorce rate of any US occupation and farmers the lowest, from an original analysis of 3.7 million Census records.

13% of US adults say a partner has ghosted them and academic samples reach 23%. What the research measures, and what it does not.

56.8% of cheaters confess rather than get caught. Only 21.4% are found out by a partner who investigates, and no study measures how many are never discovered at all.

Register-based statistics on divorce among female same-sex couples, from Finland, the Netherlands, Sweden, Norway, the UK and the US.

US husbands and wives are 2.2 years apart on average, the narrowest gap ever recorded. 65+ statistics on age gap relationships from Census, Pew, NCFMR and peer-reviewed research.

Detroit leads all large US cities at 57.4% never married. 90+ data points on singles shares, unmarried sex ratios, state marriage rates, and the cost of living alone, calculated from raw Census ACS and BLS data.

Americans reported losing $929,287,469 to confidence and romance fraud in 2025, the highest annual total the FBI has ever recorded for the category (FBI...