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What percentage of households are a married couple?

46.8% of households are a married couple — about 47 in every 100, or 5 in 10. That is the figure published by the American Community Survey for 2023.

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46.8

Where this number comes from

Survey
American Community Survey
What it measured
American Community Survey 1-year estimate, published under the label “HOUSEHOLDS BY TYPE → Total households → Married-couple household”.
Population
U.S. households
Year
2023
90% confidence interval
46.7% to 46.9%

Work of the U.S. federal government - public domain. See the source data

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