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Married-couple households: U.S. states ranked (2025)

Measure: Married-couple households. All 50 states and District of Columbia with data in Households by type by state, ranked from highest to lowest. Reference period: 2025.

Licence: Public domain (U.S. federal government work).
Data last updated: 2026-11-04

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National value: 46.6 (United States).

Small states, hard to see on the map:

DC 26.1 %
RI 42.1 %
DE 48.5 %
CT 46.8 %
NJ 50.1 %
MD 46 %
MA 45.1 %
VT 46.4 %
NH 50.8 %

Lowest: 26.1 to 45.2 %
Group 2: 45.2 to 46.4 %
Group 3: 46.4 to 47.6 %
Group 4: 47.6 to 48.8 %
Highest: 48.8 to 57 %

The map is a visual summary; every value is in the table below, which is the keyboard and screen-reader path. Groups are quintiles of the values shown (a derived grouping). Boundaries: Natural Earth (public domain), simplified. Alaska and Hawaii are shown as insets, not to scale.

Rank is derived by Quadranac: 1 = highest value; ties share a rank. Values are as published in the source table.


1	Utah	57
2	Idaho	55.8
3	New Hampshire	50.8
4	Wyoming	50.7
5	New Jersey	50.1
6	Kansas	49.3
7	Hawaii	49.1
7	Minnesota	49.1
7	Virginia	49.1
10	Nebraska	48.9
11	Texas	48.8
12	Delaware	48.5
13	Montana	48.2
14	Maine	48.1
15	Washington	48
16	Arkansas	47.9
17	Alaska	47.8
17	South Dakota	47.8
19	Colorado	47.6
19	North Carolina	47.6
19	Tennessee	47.6
22	Iowa	47.5
23	California	47.1
24	Florida	47
24	Wisconsin	47
26	South Carolina	46.9
27	Connecticut	46.8
28	Georgia	46.5
28	Oklahoma	46.5
30	Kentucky	46.4
30	Vermont	46.4
32	Missouri	46.3
33	Indiana	46.1
34	Maryland	46
34	Michigan	46
36	Arizona	45.9
36	Pennsylvania	45.9
38	Alabama	45.7
38	West Virginia	45.7
40	Oregon	45.3
41	North Dakota	45.2
42	Massachusetts	45.1
43	Illinois	44.5
44	Ohio	44.3
45	Nevada	43.6
46	Mississippi	43.4
47	Louisiana	42.2
48	Rhode Island	42.1
49	New York	41.7
50	New Mexico	41.6
51	District of Columbia	26.1

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 1-year estimates, Table DP02: Selected Social Characteristics. Reference period: 2025.

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U.S. states ranked by married-couple households (2025). Data: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey, ACS 1-year estimates, Table DP02; rank derived by Quadranac. Data last updated 2026-11-04. https://quadranac.com/rankings/us-states-by-married-couple-households/

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