US Counties With the Highest Share Separated
2,256 US counties ranked by share separated, from highest to lowest. First are Lee County, KY (6.77%), Holmes County, MS (6.57%) and Woodruff County, AR (6.36%). The middle one of the 2,256 has 1.71%.
What this measures
The percentage of people aged 15 and over who are separated. This is not a fifth group next to the other four. The Census counts a separated person as married with the spouse away, so this is part of the married share and must never be added to it. 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 | Mississippi | 2.49% |
| 2 | South Carolina | 2.35% |
| 3 | Louisiana | 2.22% |
| 4 | New York | 2.19% |
| 5 | North Carolina | 2.18% |
| 6 | Puerto Rico | 2.13% |
| 7 | Texas | 2.04% |
| 8 | Georgia | 1.95% |
| 9 | Arkansas | 1.92% |
| 10 | Oklahoma | 1.92% |
| 11 | Alabama | 1.92% |
| 12 | Virginia | 1.92% |
| 13 | Florida | 1.88% |
| 14 | California | 1.83% |
| 15 | Nevada | 1.82% |
| 16 | Kentucky | 1.79% |
| 17 | Maryland | 1.79% |
| 18 | Tennessee | 1.78% |
| 19 | Pennsylvania | 1.76% |
| 20 | New Jersey | 1.74% |
| 21 | Alaska | 1.68% |
| 22 | Missouri | 1.65% |
| 23 | New Mexico | 1.53% |
| 24 | Massachusetts | 1.52% |
| 25 | Illinois | 1.52% |
| 26 | Ohio | 1.5% |
| 27 | Arizona | 1.47% |
| 28 | Delaware | 1.47% |
| 29 | District of Columbia | 1.4% |
| 30 | Washington | 1.38% |
| 31 | Rhode Island | 1.35% |
| 32 | Oregon | 1.32% |
| 33 | West Virginia | 1.29% |
| 34 | Kansas | 1.28% |
| 35 | Wyoming | 1.26% |
| 36 | Colorado | 1.23% |
| 37 | Indiana | 1.23% |
| 38 | Connecticut | 1.22% |
| 39 | Hawaii | 1.2% |
| 40 | Vermont | 1.16% |
| 41 | Utah | 1.16% |
| 42 | Michigan | 1.13% |
| 43 | Iowa | 1.1% |
| 44 | South Dakota | 1.09% |
| 45 | Montana | 1.09% |
| 46 | Idaho | 1.04% |
| 47 | New Hampshire | 1.01% |
| 48 | Nebraska | 0.993% |
| 49 | Maine | 0.97% |
| 50 | Minnesota | 0.888% |
| 51 | North Dakota | 0.875% |
| 52 | Wisconsin | 0.869% |
More on share separated
- US Counties With the Lowest Share Separated
- Share separated 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.