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Share now married and Share American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic

Where Share now married is higher, Share American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic tends to be lower. The link is moderate: -0.46 across 1,386 counties, on a scale from −1 (opposite) to +1 (in step). That figure compares places with the same population density, income and education, so those differences can't explain it. It holds inside states too. Measured separately within each of 29 states, the middle value of the link is -0.06.

Holds after adjusting

Every place, plotted

One dot for each place reporting both measures. Hover over or tap a dot to see its name and values. The thin line is the straight line that best fits the dots. The bold line, shown for counties, is the link after adjusting for density, income and education. A dot far from the lines is a place that does not follow the pattern.

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What each measure is

Share now married

The percentage of people aged 15 and over who are married now, including those whose spouse lives elsewhere. The middle county is 52.4%. Never married, married, widowed and divorced cover everyone 15 and over and add up to exactly 100%.

Census ACS 5-year · ACS table B12001_004…B12001_013 (2 cells), divided by population aged 15 and over

Share American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic

The percentage of residents who are American Indian or Alaska Native alone and not Hispanic. They live mostly on and near reservations: Oglala Lakota County, South Dakota is 91%, while most counties are under 1%.

Census ACS 5-year · ACS table B03002_005, divided by total population

Highest and lowest

Where each measure is highest and lowest among the places reporting both (2023), with the other measure beside it. This is shown for every size of place where both are published. Metro-area values are added up from their counties. A measure that cannot be added up across counties, such as a middle value (median), has no metro figure. Counts are shown per 1,000 residents, since raw totals would only list the largest places. Cities and towns and ZIP codes are shown where the Census survey or the CDC publishes them; most other sources stop at the county. They are shown for places of 5,000 residents or more, and only where the survey’s margin of error is small enough for the figure to be usable. The CDC publishes its health estimates for cities in a version adjusted for age, so places with older or younger people can be compared fairly, but not for ZIP codes.

Counties

By share now married

Share now marriedShare American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic
Highest
Loving County, TX83.3%0%
Borden County, TX82.6%0%
King County, TX80.9%0%
Glasscock County, TX80.5%0%
Thomas County, NE77.5%0%
Lowest
Oglala Lakota County, SD18.4%91.4%
Vieques Municipio, PR22.9%0%
Sioux County, ND26.1%83.7%
Comerío Municipio, PR26.8%0%
Issaquena County, MS28.8%0%

By share American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic

Share now marriedShare American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic
Highest
Oglala Lakota County, SD18.4%91.4%
Kusilvak Census Area, AK35.1%86.4%
Sioux County, ND26.1%83.7%
Bethel Census Area, AK42.4%83.6%
Todd County, SD32%83.1%
Lowest
Washington County, CO61.3%0%
Phillips County, CO60.9%0%
Ouray County, CO68%0%
Sierra County, CA59.2%0%
Monroe County, AR44.2%0%
States

By share now married

Share now marriedShare American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic
Highest
Utah56.3%0.683%
Idaho55.1%0.78%
Wyoming54.5%1.69%
Nebraska52.8%0.586%
Kansas52.5%0.426%
Lowest
District of Columbia32.9%0.106%
New Mexico44.4%8.6%
Louisiana45.7%0.408%
Rhode Island46%0.157%
New York46.8%0.187%

By share American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic

Share now marriedShare American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic
Highest
Alaska50.9%13.5%
New Mexico44.4%8.6%
South Dakota51.9%7.38%
Oklahoma50.5%6.79%
Montana52.1%5.5%
Lowest
Pennsylvania49.5%0.0553%
Ohio48.6%0.0625%
West Virginia49.7%0.0647%
Illinois48.7%0.0697%
Indiana50%0.0703%
Metro areas

By share now married

Share now marriedShare American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic
Highest
Wildwood-The Villages, FL63.4%0.237%
Brigham City, UT-ID61.7%0.417%
St. George, UT61.6%0.665%
Gardnerville Ranchos, NV-CA60.6%1.88%
Los Alamos, NM60.4%0.743%
Lowest
Gallup, NM31.9%75.1%
Vermillion, SD34.3%2.56%
Guayama, PR35.2%0%
Ponce, PR35.5%0%
Mayagüez, PR35.6%0%

By share American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic

Share now marriedShare American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic
Highest
Gallup, NM31.9%75.1%
Show Low, AZ50.3%41.9%
Lumberton, NC40.7%39.1%
Farmington, NM43.5%38.5%
Tahlequah, OK49.3%31.8%
Lowest
Zapata, TX41.8%0%
Weirton-Steubenville, WV-OH47.6%0%
Valdosta, GA45%0%
Utuado, PR39.9%0%
Sikeston, MO49.3%0%
Cities and towns

By share now married

Share now marriedShare American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic
Highest
St. James town, NC87.7%0%
Tega Cay city, SC79.1%0%
Kaser village, NY78.9%0%
Longboat Key town, FL77.9%0%
Fairfield Glade CDP, TN77%0%
Lowest
Rutgers University-Busch Campus CDP, NJ3.78%0%
Isla Vista CDP, CA4.48%0%
Prairie View city, TX8.26%0%
Grambling city, LA15%0%
South Hill CDP, NY15.8%0%

By share American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic

Share now marriedShare American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic
Highest
Zuni Pueblo CDP, NM20.3%98%
Kayenta CDP, AZ43.9%94.4%
Shiprock CDP, NM35.2%93.2%
Tuba City CDP, AZ33.9%88.7%
Bethel city, AK44.9%67.8%
Lowest
Windsor Locks CDP, CT49.8%0%
Willimantic CDP, CT27.6%0%
Wethersfield CDP, CT57%0%
Trumbull Center CDP, CT55.2%0%
Terryville CDP, CT46%0%
ZIP codes

By share now married

Share now marriedShare American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic
Highest
ZIP 84310 (Weber County, UT)78.2%0%
ZIP 34228 (Longboat Key town, FL)77.9%0%
ZIP 32163 (Wildwood city, FL)77.6%0%
ZIP 38558 (Fairfield Glade CDP, TN)77.1%0%
ZIP 85262 (Maricopa County, AZ)77%0%
Lowest
ZIP 32612 (Gainesville city, FL)0%0%
ZIP 19717 (Newark city, DE)0%0%
ZIP 95064 (Santa Cruz city, CA)5.22%0%
ZIP 77446 (Prairie View city, TX)6.79%0%
ZIP 32603 (Gainesville city, FL)10.1%0%

By share American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic

Share now marriedShare American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic
Highest
ZIP 58316 (Rolette County, ND)29.4%96.5%
ZIP 86033 (Navajo County, AZ)41.6%95.7%
ZIP 86505 (Apache County, AZ)30.3%95.6%
ZIP 87327 (McKinley County, NM)22.2%95.3%
ZIP 87313 (McKinley County, NM)27.1%95%
Lowest
ZIP 08904 (Highland Park borough, NJ)48.2%0%
ZIP 08901 (New Brunswick city, NJ)25.1%0%
ZIP 08889 (Hunterdon County, NJ)63.8%0%
ZIP 08882 (South River borough, NJ)52.8%0%
ZIP 08867 (Hunterdon County, NJ)70.1%0%

Counties furthest from the pattern

Compared with the straight line that best fits all 1,399 counties: the five with far more share American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic than their share now married would suggest, and the five with far less.

Share now marriedShare American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic
Above the line
Kusilvak Census Area, AK35.1%86.4%
Bethel Census Area, AK42.4%83.6%
Oglala Lakota County, SD18.4%91.4%
Todd County, SD32%83.1%
Menominee County, WI44.8%78.4%
Below the line
Vieques Municipio, PR22.9%0%
Comerío Municipio, PR26.8%0%
Issaquena County, MS28.8%0%
Naranjito Municipio, PR29.7%0%
Williamsburg city, VA29.8%0%

Two series, one county

Both measures over time for a county you pick. The two charts are stacked, so they share only the years along the bottom. You can pick from the thirty largest counties reporting both. This panel covers 2010–2024, and a measure published only once shows as a single dot.

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Every version of the link

Each row measures the same link, from −1 to +1, in a different way. If the rows mostly agree, the link does not depend on one choice of method.

Before adjusting for anything-0.2361,386 counties reporting both
After adjusting for density, income and education-0.464the part of the link that is not just how urban, rich and educated a place is
Also adjusting for population size-0.451size taken out as well as density
Also comparing only within each state-0.416each county is compared only with others in its own state, so this is no longer a comparison between states
Giving bigger counties more weight-0.197the adjusted link for the average resident rather than the average county. With this weighting, the data counts for about 189 equally weighted counties
Middle value inside single states-0.057the link worked out inside each of 29 states with at least 20 counties reporting
Using ranks, after adjusting-0.187uses each county’s rank, not its value, so a few extreme counties cannot create the link

How much to believe it

Could it be chance?

The p-value is the chance of seeing a link this strong if there were really none. A value of 0.05 or less means the link is unlikely to be chance. Very small values are written in short form: 3.1e-16 means 0.00000000000000031, and the bigger the number after “e-”, the smaller the value. Treating every county as a separate case gives p = 1.0e-74. But counties in the same state tend to resemble each other, so the better figure allows for that: p = 0.002. The site tested 20,910 pairs, and testing so many turns up some flukes. The q-value allows for that too. For this pair it is 6.9e-74.

Do nearby places look alike?

Moran’s I measures how much nearby places look alike: 0 means no map pattern, and higher means neighbours are more similar. For the part of each county that the adjustment leaves unexplained, it is +0.27 (p = 0.001). That unexplained part still clusters on the map. So some regional factor shared by both measures is not accounted for.

Did they change together?

The figures above compare counties at one moment. This asks a different question: where share now married rose most, did share american indian or alaska native, not hispanicmove too? Each county’s change is compared with the average change in its own state. That takes out ups and downs that hit a whole region at once. Each change is the gap between two estimates that both contain some error. That error pulls these links towards zero, so a weak one is weak partly for that reason. The q column shows whether a link could be a fluke, allowing for the many pairs tested: 0.05 or less means it is unlikely to be chance.

PeriodCountiesChange togetherWithin statesq
2014–2019 the main test: each Census survey figure averages five years, and these two do not overlap; before the pandemic1,262-0.10-0.11—
2019–2023 a repeat check: its two five-year survey figures both include 2019, and it covers the COVID years1,138-0.10-0.08—

Both come from the American Community Survey, which asks a sample of households. Random error in a county's sample pushes both changes at once. So part of any agreement here is that shared error. It is shown, but not counted as a finding. How change is measured.

Related pairs

Association only. Nothing here shows that either measure changes the other. This describes counties, not the people in them. Two measures going together across places does not mean the same people have both. How the US county data works · Explore Share now married and Share American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic