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Share of adults 18–34 living with a spouse: U.S. states ranked (2025)

Measure: Share of adults 18 to 34 living with a spouse (%, derived). All 50 states and District of Columbia with data in Living arrangements of young adults aged 18 to 34 by state, ranked from highest to lowest. Reference period: 2025.

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

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National value: 22.7 (United States).

Small states, hard to see on the map:

DC 14.8 %
RI 18.6 %
DE 22.1 %
CT 18.4 %
NJ 20 %
MD 20 %
MA 17.9 %
VT 21.2 %
NH 22.9 %

Lowest: 14.8 to 20 %
Group 2: 20 to 22.9 %
Group 3: 22.9 to 26.2 %
Group 4: 26.2 to 28.3 %
Highest: 28.3 to 34.2 %

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. The ranked value is itself derived; see the source table for the method. Values are as published in the source table.


1	Idaho	34.2
2	Wyoming	32.4
3	Arkansas	32.3
4	Kansas	31.6
5	Utah	31.5
6	North Dakota	31.3
7	South Dakota	31.1
8	Nebraska	29.4
9	Iowa	29.2
10	Kentucky	29
11	Alaska	28.3
12	Montana	28.2
13	Missouri	27.8
14	Tennessee	27.4
15	Oklahoma	26.9
16	Alabama	26.7
16	Indiana	26.7
16	Minnesota	26.7
19	West Virginia	26.3
20	North Carolina	26.2
20	South Carolina	26.2
22	Wisconsin	26.1
23	Colorado	25.7
24	Ohio	25
24	Washington	25
26	Mississippi	24.6
27	Virginia	24.3
28	Texas	24.1
29	Maine	23.4
30	Pennsylvania	23.2
31	New Hampshire	22.9
32	Michigan	22.8
33	Arizona	22.3
34	Delaware	22.1
34	Georgia	22.1
36	Oregon	21.6
37	Louisiana	21.4
38	Vermont	21.2
39	Hawaii	20.8
40	Florida	20.5
41	Maryland	20
41	New Jersey	20
43	Illinois	19.7
44	New Mexico	19.6
45	Nevada	19.2
46	Rhode Island	18.6
47	Connecticut	18.4
48	Massachusetts	17.9
49	New York	17.6
50	California	16.7
51	District of Columbia	14.8

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2025 1-year estimates, Table B09021: Living arrangements of adults 18 years and over by age. Reference period: 2025.

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U.S. states ranked by share of adults 18 to 34 living with a spouse (%, derived) (2025). Data: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2025 1-year estimates, Table B09021: Living arrangements of adults 18 years and over by age; rank derived by Quadranac. Data last updated 2026-11-11. https://quadranac.com/rankings/us-states-by-share-of-adults-18-to-34-living-with-a-spouse/

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