Utah, Idaho, and Wyoming all share a common border and something more important.
according to Data collected by the Census Bureau in 2020these were three of the four states with the highest proportion of households headed by opposite-sex couples.
New Hampshire also ranked in the top four.
In 2020, 57.8% of Utah households were headed by opposite-sex couples. In Idaho, it was 53.7%. (Related: Terrence P. Jeffrey: Americans are leaving Los Angeles, Brooklyn, Queens, the Bronx, Chicago and Philadelphia)
However, these states were the only states where a majority of households were headed by opposite-sex couples. In New Hampshire, which ranked third, only 49.4% of households were headed by opposite-sex couples. Wyoming, which ranked fourth, had a rate of 48.9%.
When ranked by this demographic, the top 10 states were Kansas (48.5%); Nebraska (48.5%); Minnesota (48.4%); New Jersey (48.3%); Hawaii (48.2%) and Iowa (48.2%).
Which state ranks last in the percentage of households headed by opposite-sex couples?
New York came in last. Only 40.6% of households were headed by a married couple of the opposite sex. Louisiana was her second to last with 40.7%. Rhode Island and New Mexico were tied for second from bottom at 41.3%.
The rest of the bottom 10 included Mississippi State (41.5%); Ohio (43.9%); Massachusetts (44.1%); Alabama (44.3%) and Georgia (44.7%).
Although our nation’s capital, the District of Columbia, is not a state, the Census Bureau included it in a data table showing the percentage of households headed by opposite-sex couples by state. If it were a state, the District of Columbia would have finished in last place by far. Only 22.8% of households were headed by a married couple of the opposite sex.
In the majority of states in the country (31 of 50 states), the percentage of households headed by opposite-sex couples was at least twice as high as the 22.8% reported by the Census Bureau in the nation’s capital.
“Although married-couple households make up the largest proportion of married-couple households, that proportion has steadily declined over the past several decades,” the Census Bureau says. Said According to an analysis released last week. “From 1968 to 2018, the proportion of adults aged 25 to 34 living with a spouse decreased from 81.5 percent to 40.3 percent, while the proportion living with an unmarried partner increased from 0.2 percent to 14.8 percent. .”
In 2020, the Census Bureau expanded its data collection on American couples.
“After discovering issues with the measurement of couple households in the 2010 Census, the U.S. Census Bureau revised the relationship with the head of household question in the 2020 Census to improve the quality of couple household data.” the department said in a May 25, 2023 release. . One of the revisions included adding a “specific response category regarding opposite-sex spouses.” Unmarried partners of the opposite sex, spouses of the same sex, unmarried partners of the same sex. ”
So which state had the highest percentage of households headed by unmarried opposite-sex couples in 2020?
Vermont ranks first in the nation with 9.0%.
Also in the top 10 was Maine (8.9%). Oregon (8.2%); Alaska (8.1%); Nevada (8.1%); New Hampshire (8.1%); New Mexico (7.6%); Washington (7.6%); Wisconsin (7.6%); Arizona and Rhode Island were tied at 7.3%.
Utah ranks first in the nation with 57.8% of households headed by opposite-sex couples, and tied with Alabama for the lowest percentage of households headed by unmarried opposite-sex couples (4.9%).
At the bottom of this category was Mississippi (5.2%), followed by Utah and Alabama. South Carolina (5.5%); Georgia (5.6%); Virginia (5.7%); Texas (5.7%); New Jersey (5.8%); North Carolina (5.9%); Maryland (5.9%) and Arkansas (5.9%).
There were two other categories in which Census Bureau data showed the District of Columbia outperformed all states. These are the percentages of households headed by married and unmarried same-sex couples.
According to the Census Bureau, in our nation’s capital, 1.2 percent of households are headed by unmarried same-sex couples and 1.4 percent are headed by married same-sex couples.
Less than 1% of states fell into either of these categories. Fourteen states, including California, New York, and Massachusetts, had more households headed by unmarried same-sex couples at 0.5% than any other state. Four states, including Hawaii, Massachusetts, Delaware, and Vermont, had more households than any other state, with 0.8% of households headed by same-sex couples.
The decline of the traditional family led by a married mother and father means the decline of America.
As I’ve said before in this column, traditional family life correlates with economic well-being. In 2022, married-couple households had the highest median income and lowest poverty rate, according to the Census Bureau.
In the same year, the median household income for married couples was $110,800, compared to $51,930 for male heads of households living in nonfamily households and $40,000 for female heads of households living in nonfamily households. It was $200.
According to the Census Bureau, in the same year, 6.9% of married couple households with children under 18 lived in poverty, compared to 37.2% of households headed by women with children under 18 and without a spouse, and 37.2% of households headed by men under 18. 18.3% of the respondents were in poverty. Children under 18 and those without spouses lived in poverty.
In 1798, President John Adams sent a message to the Massachusetts militia. “[W]”No government has the power to fight human passions that are not limited by morality or religion,” he said.
“Our Constitution was created only for moral and religious people,” he said. “That’s just not good enough for any other government.”
John Adams was right.
Terrence P. Jeffrey is an investigative editor at the Daily Caller News Foundation. To learn more about Terrence P. Jeffrey and read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit his Creators Syndicate website at www.creators.com.
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