--- title: Where Do Single People Live? description: And the fellas? They're mostly in city centers across the country--with some notable exceptions. Here's a closer look canonical: https://time.com/3935289/where-do-single-people-live/ author: TIME Staff article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-06-25T11:16:21.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-22T08:31:39.116Z article:section: U.S. og:title: Where Do Single People Live? og:description: And the fellas? They're mostly in city centers across the country--with some notable exceptions. Here's a closer look og:url: https://time.com/3935289/where-do-single-people-live/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Where Do Single People Live? twitter:description: And the fellas? They're mostly in city centers across the country--with some notable exceptions. Here's a closer look twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Where Are the Single Ladies? by [TIME Staff](/author/time-staff/) ## TIME Staff Jun 25, 2015 11:16 AM CUT by [TIME Staff](/author/time-staff/) ## TIME Staff Jun 25, 2015 11:16 AM CUT 1 LOS ANGELES Singles flock to the center of L.A., while Orange County has more couples 2 DETROIT The Motor City has the highest concentration of single people in the nation 3 SALT LAKE CITY A sizable Mormon population contributes to one of the nation’s lowest singles rates 4 AUSTIN The lure of urban areas over suburbs is particularly evident here 5 WASHINGTON The young, transplanted populace translates to a much lower marriage rate than the national average \[The following text appears within 6 maps. Please see hardcopy or PDF for actual maps.\] Angeles National Forest 5 110 710 210 605 405 5 Santa Monica L.A. Chino Anaheim Chino Ann Arbor Auburn Hills 275 96 Canton Warren 94 Detroit 75 WASH. ORE. NEV. CALIF. 1 MONT. IDAHO WYO. 3 UTAH ARIZ. COLO. N.M. N.D. S.D. NEB. KANS. OKLA. TEXAS 4 MINN. IOWA MO ARK. LA. ILL. WIS. TENN. MISS. MICH. 2 OHIO IND. ALA. PA. W.VA. S.C GA. FLA. N.Y. VT. VA. N.C. S.C. N.H. MAINE MASS. R.I. CONN. N.J. 5 DEL. MD. ALASKA HAWAII 15 Logan Great Salt Lake 80 84 Salt Lake City Provo 15 80 WYO. 35 Georgetown Round Rock Lakeway Austin 35 270 Gaithersburg 95 D.C. Fairfax 66 Gainesville 95 Alexandria 495 PERCENTAGE OF POPULATION 21 AND OVER THAT IS SINGLE \[The following text appears within a chart. Please see hardcopy or PDF for actual chart.\] 70% NATIONAL AVERAGE 47% 24% SOURCE: IPUMS-USA; UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA; IPUMS.ORG ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3935289/where-do-single-people-live/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3935289/where-do-single-people-live/"},"headline":"Where Are the Single Ladies?","datePublished":"2015-06-25T11:16:21.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T08:31:39.116Z","description":"And the fellas? They're mostly in city centers across the country--with some notable exceptions. Here's a closer look","url":"https://time.com/3935289/where-do-single-people-live/","keywords":[],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"TIME Staff","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/time-staff/"}],"articleSection":"U.S.","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/us/","name":"U.S."}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3935289/where-do-single-people-live/","name":"Where Are the Single Ladies?"}}]}] ```