US Counties With the Highest Share Never Married
3,213 US counties ranked by share never married, from highest to lowest. First are Lexington city, VA (64.5%), Oglala Lakota County, SD (62.8%) and Radford city, VA (62.6%). The middle one of the 3,213 has 28.1%.
What this measures
The percentage of people aged 15 and over who have never married. The Census counts from age 15, not 18, so every county's figure includes some teenagers. Source: Census ACS 5-year.
For most measures, a national ranking mostly sorts places by income and by how urban they are. Each county’s own page compares it with the 50 counties most like it instead, which is often the fairer view.
The 100 highest counties
Every state, highest first
Each state’s own published figure, not an average of its counties.
| Rank | State | % |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | District of Columbia | 55.2% |
| 2 | Puerto Rico | 41.9% |
| 3 | New York | 38.6% |
| 4 | California | 37.8% |
| 5 | Rhode Island | 37.3% |
| 6 | Massachusetts | 37.2% |
| 7 | New Mexico | 36.4% |
| 8 | Louisiana | 36.2% |
| 9 | Illinois | 36% |
| 10 | Maryland | 35.9% |
| 11 | Connecticut | 35.4% |
| 12 | Georgia | 35.2% |
| 13 | New Jersey | 34.5% |
| 14 | Pennsylvania | 34.4% |
| 15 | Nevada | 34.3% |
| 16 | Mississippi | 34.2% |
| 17 | Hawaii | 34.1% |
| 18 | Michigan | 33.9% |
| 19 | Alaska | 33.8% |
| 20 | Arizona | 33.7% |
| 21 | Texas | 33.6% |
| 22 | Delaware | 33.5% |
| 23 | Ohio | 33.3% |
| 24 | Wisconsin | 33.3% |
| 25 | Vermont | 33.1% |
| 26 | North Dakota | 33% |
| 27 | Virginia | 33% |
| 28 | Minnesota | 33% |
| 29 | Colorado | 32.9% |
| 30 | North Carolina | 32.7% |
| 31 | South Carolina | 32.5% |
| 32 | Oregon | 32.4% |
| 33 | Washington | 32.2% |
| 34 | Indiana | 31.9% |
| 35 | South Dakota | 31.8% |
| 36 | Alabama | 31.6% |
| 37 | Florida | 31.5% |
| 38 | Nebraska | 31.5% |
| 39 | Iowa | 31.4% |
| 40 | Missouri | 31.4% |
| 41 | Utah | 31.4% |
| 42 | Tennessee | 31% |
| 43 | Kansas | 30.7% |
| 44 | Oklahoma | 30.3% |
| 45 | New Hampshire | 30.3% |
| 46 | Montana | 29.9% |
| 47 | Kentucky | 29.7% |
| 48 | Arkansas | 29.5% |
| 49 | West Virginia | 29% |
| 50 | Maine | 28.9% |
| 51 | Idaho | 28.3% |
| 52 | Wyoming | 27.6% |
More on share never married
- US Counties With the Lowest Share Never Married
- Share never married by US county: map by year and what it goes with
A ranking describes places, not the people in them, and a high or low place does not by itself say why. All US rankings.