marriage

Variation kicks in when you look at the later years, consider multiple marriages, divorce, separation, and opposite-sex versus same-sex relationships. This chart breaks it all down.

How common are wide age gaps between spouses? These are the age differences through the lens of the 2022 five-year American Community Survey.

I wondered how common it is for someone to get a divorce. While I’ve touched on the topic before, I’ve never calculated it directly, so I gave it a go.

Find out which jobs most often pair together among married couples.

About 48% of the U.S. population aged 15 and older is married. I was curious if there were regional variations, so I mapped it.

Everyone’s relationship timeline is a little different. This animation plays out real-life paths to marriage.

We know that people are marrying later in life, but that’s not the only shift. The whole relationship timeline is stretching.

First comes love, then comes marriage, then comes baby in the baby carriage. Sometimes.

Based on the “half-your-age-plus-seven” rule, the range of people you can date expands with age. Combine that with population counts and demographics, and you can find when your non-creepy dating pool peaks.

Or, given your age, the percentage of fish left in the sea. Here’s a chart.

This is who marries whom, based on what one does for a living.

Some jobs tend towards higher divorce rates. Some towards lower. Salary also probably plays a role.

Using a century of data, we watch the shift of marital status in the United States.

The relationship and dynamics change. Less lust, more companionship. Is that really how it works?

Separately, we looked at marrying age, divorce rates, and those who never married. Now let’s look at marital status all together, with the addition of the widowed status.

We know when people usually get married. We know who never marries. Finally, it’s time to look at the other side: divorce and remarriage.

Some people never get married, and some wait longer than others. Let’s look at these people.

People get married at various ages, but there are definite trends that vary across demographic groups. What do these trends look like?