Marital status is not relationship status
An unmarried respondent may be dating, cohabiting, partnered, or not looking for a relationship. The ACS category is useful for a legal-demographic count but cannot stand in for romantic availability.
MARITAL STATUS / 2024 ACS← Main calculator
What percentage of women are single?
The definition matters.
This answers the measurable ACS version of the question: what share of U.S. women ages 20–69 are not currently married? The count includes never married, divorced, separated, and widowed women—not only active daters.
RUN THE CALCULATOR↓48.3%about 1 in 2
of U.S. women ages 20–69 are not currently married
52.3M of 108.5M weighted people; includes never married, divorced, separated, and widowed.
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THE SHORT ANSWER
What the number can—and cannot—say.
Men and women use the same definition
Both headline percentages use 2024 ACS person weights, ages 20–69, the national geography, and the same rule: every marital-status code other than married is included.
Compare a narrower age range in the calculator
A national 20–69 headline is a reference point. The interactive result can answer a more relevant age range and state while showing both male and female denominators side by side.
COMMON FOLLOW-UPS
What percentage of women are single in the United States?
The displayed statistic is the weighted share of U.S. women ages 20–69 who are not currently married in the 2024 ACS PUMS file. It does not claim all of them are dating.
Are divorced and widowed women included?
Yes. Never married, divorced, separated, and widowed women are included in the site’s not-currently-married count.
Can I compare single men and women by state?
Yes. Choose a state and turn on the Not married filter. Narrow state-and-age groups can be noisier than national estimates, so the result should be treated as directional.
POPULAR QUESTIONS
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Plain-language answers for the dating-statistics questions people are already arguing about—each connected to the underlying calculator.