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According to refined divorce rate data by the United States Census Bureau, these five states had the highest divorce rates in 2022: Arkansas: 11.9. Wyoming: 11. Kentucky: 9.9. West Virginia: 9.7 ...
Both marriage and divorce rates declined in the U.S. from 2011 to 2021, according to the most recent statistics from the U.S. Census Bureau. The U.S. divorce rate recently hit a 50-year low, the ...
The Census Bureau collects marital history from about 39,000 US households and ranks information regarding marriage and divorce, categorizing data into several demographic characteristics.
According to Census Bureau data Black wife/White husband marriages have the lowest rates of divorce. According to Census Bureau data in 1985, Black men participated in 143,000 interracial marriages (approximately 3% of all married Black men in the U.S.).
The introduction of no-fault divorce led to a rise in divorce rates in the United States during the 1970s. [16] The National Center for Health Statistics reported that from 1975 to 1988 in the US, in families with children present, wives filed for divorce in approximately two-thirds of cases. In 1975, 71.4% of the cases were filed by women, and ...
In 2001, in the United States 8.2% of couples were calculated to be cohabiting, the majority of them in the West Coast and New England/Northeastern United States areas. [6] In 2005, the Census Bureau reported 4.85 million cohabiting couples, up more than ten times from 1960, when there were 439,000 such couples.
In 2022, the divorce rate was 2.4 per 1,000 people. Although that isn’t the lowest it has ever been – in 2021, it was 2.3 – it continues a downward trend, according to the data.
Divorce demography is the study of divorce statistics in a population. There are three ratios used for divorce rate calculations: crude divorce rate, refined divorce rate, and divorce-to-marriage ratio. Each of these calculations has weaknesses and can be misleading [1