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Never married: U.S. states ranked (2025)

Measure: Never married. All 50 states and District of Columbia with data in Marital status by state, ranked from highest to lowest. Reference period: 2025.

Licence: Public domain (U.S. federal government work).
Data last updated: 2026-10-29

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National value: 34.8 (United States).

Small states, hard to see on the map:

DC 55 %
RI 38.8 %
DE 32.9 %
CT 36.5 %
NJ 35.7 %
MD 36.9 %
MA 38.5 %
VT 31.1 %
NH 30.2 %

Lowest: 26.4 to 31.3 %
Group 2: 31.3 to 32.9 %
Group 3: 32.9 to 34.1 %
Group 4: 34.1 to 35.8 %
Highest: 35.8 to 55 %

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	District of Columbia	55
2	New York	39.8
3	California	39
4	Rhode Island	38.8
5	Massachusetts	38.5
6	Illinois	37.1
7	Maryland	36.9
8	Connecticut	36.5
9	Louisiana	36.3
10	Georgia	35.9
11	New Mexico	35.8
12	Nevada	35.7
12	New Jersey	35.7
14	Alaska	34.8
14	Hawaii	34.8
16	Arizona	34.7
16	Pennsylvania	34.7
16	Texas	34.7
19	Michigan	34.5
20	Oregon	34.2
21	Colorado	34.1
22	Ohio	33.9
23	Mississippi	33.8
24	North Dakota	33.6
25	Washington	33.4
26	Minnesota	33.3
26	Utah	33.3
28	Virginia	33.2
29	Wisconsin	33.1
30	Delaware	32.9
30	Indiana	32.9
30	North Carolina	32.9
33	Alabama	32.3
34	Florida	32.1
34	Nebraska	32.1
36	South Carolina	31.9
36	South Dakota	31.9
38	Missouri	31.8
38	Oklahoma	31.8
40	Tennessee	31.5
41	Iowa	31.3
42	Vermont	31.1
43	Kansas	30.8
44	Kentucky	30.6
45	Maine	30.3
46	New Hampshire	30.2
47	Montana	30.1
48	West Virginia	29.9
49	Arkansas	28.8
50	Idaho	27.7
51	Wyoming	26.4

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 1-year estimates, Table S1201: Marital Status. Reference period: 2025.

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U.S. states ranked by never married (2025). Data: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey, ACS 1-year estimates, Table S1201; rank derived by Quadranac. Data last updated 2026-10-29. https://quadranac.com/rankings/us-states-by-never-married/

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