US Counties With the Lowest Share Now Married
3,221 US counties ranked by share now married, from lowest to highest. First are Oglala Lakota County, SD (18.4%), Vieques Municipio, PR (22.9%) and Radford city, VA (25.9%). The middle one of the 3,221 has 52.4%.
What this measures
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%. 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 lowest counties
Every state, lowest first
Each state’s own published figure, not an average of its counties.
| Rank | State | % |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | District of Columbia | 32.9% |
| 2 | Puerto Rico | 36.4% |
| 3 | New Mexico | 44.4% |
| 4 | Louisiana | 45.7% |
| 5 | Rhode Island | 46% |
| 6 | New York | 46.8% |
| 7 | Mississippi | 47.1% |
| 8 | Nevada | 47.2% |
| 9 | Massachusetts | 48.3% |
| 10 | Georgia | 48.3% |
| 11 | California | 48.4% |
| 12 | Ohio | 48.6% |
| 13 | Illinois | 48.7% |
| 14 | Michigan | 48.7% |
| 15 | Connecticut | 48.8% |
| 16 | Maryland | 48.9% |
| 17 | Arizona | 49.1% |
| 18 | Vermont | 49.1% |
| 19 | Florida | 49.3% |
| 20 | Alabama | 49.3% |
| 21 | Pennsylvania | 49.5% |
| 22 | Delaware | 49.6% |
| 23 | West Virginia | 49.7% |
| 24 | Oregon | 49.9% |
| 25 | Indiana | 50% |
| 26 | Missouri | 50.5% |
| 27 | Oklahoma | 50.5% |
| 28 | Wisconsin | 50.5% |
| 29 | South Carolina | 50.6% |
| 30 | Kentucky | 50.6% |
| 31 | Hawaii | 50.6% |
| 32 | Tennessee | 50.7% |
| 33 | North Carolina | 50.8% |
| 34 | Arkansas | 50.8% |
| 35 | Alaska | 50.9% |
| 36 | New Jersey | 51.2% |
| 37 | Texas | 51.4% |
| 38 | Maine | 51.5% |
| 39 | Virginia | 51.5% |
| 40 | North Dakota | 51.6% |
| 41 | Colorado | 51.7% |
| 42 | South Dakota | 51.9% |
| 43 | Washington | 51.9% |
| 44 | Minnesota | 51.9% |
| 45 | Montana | 52.1% |
| 46 | New Hampshire | 52.2% |
| 47 | Iowa | 52.2% |
| 48 | Kansas | 52.5% |
| 49 | Nebraska | 52.8% |
| 50 | Wyoming | 54.5% |
| 51 | Idaho | 55.1% |
| 52 | Utah | 56.3% |
More on share now married
- US Counties With the Highest Share Now Married
- Share now 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.