With Valentine’s Day around the corner and high inflation making dates more expensive, the personal-finance website WalletHub today released its report on 2023's Best & Worst States for Singles.
To help unattached Americans improve their chances of finding love, WalletHub compared the 50 states across 30 key indicators of dating-friendliness. The data set ranges from the share of single adults to online-dating opportunities to restaurants per capita.
New Mexico has the highestshare of single adults, 54.93 percent, which is 1.3 times higher than in Utah, the state with the lowest at 43.28 percent.
California has the mostfitness and recreational facilities (per square root of population), 0.816385, which is 11.1 times more than in Hawaii, the state with the fewest at 0.073821.
North Dakota has the lowestunemployment rate for the single population, 4.69 percent, which is 2.3 times lower than in Mississippi, the state with the highest at 10.99 percent.
The national rate of single adults in the U.S. is less than 50%, but the state with the highest ratio of singles is New Mexico, with 57% of adults either divorced, never married, widowed or separated.
Los Angeles, CA. Though LA ranks considerably higher if you're willing to lie about being a movie producer, it easily makes the list thanks to the crazy high number of singles living there.
1. Seattle. WalletHub named Seattle the best city to be single in the U.S. for a few reasons. The company said the city has good options in terms of restaurants, social clubs and venues to meet other singles.
Introductions through family or friends are the most common way people meet a partner, but meeting partners online is common among some groups. Looking at adults whose dating days are behind them – at least for the time being – friends and family were the most common source in helping them find a match.
1 best state for dating in 2024 is Florida, which ranked No. 3 in 2023. Rounding out the top five best states for dating are California (No. 3), New York (No.
Nevada is the clear winner of our State of Romance index, boasting the highest marriage rate in the country combined with a relatively low divorce rate (10.66%).
California is inherently romantic, with its beautiful sunsets, ocean views and warm weather. The state came in among the Top Ten in a 2017 survey of the best states for finding lasting love, but three other potentially surprising states took the top three spots: Mississippi, Utah and Wisconsin.
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