September 19-25 was National Singles Week in the good old US of A.
The celebrations, such as they were, were buoyed by the release of the 2009 census, which revealed these facts:
96.6 million
Number of unmarried Americans 18 and older in 2009. This group comprised 43 percent of all U.S. residents 18 and older.
53%
Percentage of unmarried Americans 18 and older who were women. This is down from 57 per cent in the 2000 Census.
61%
Percentage of unmarried Americans 18 and older who had never been married. Another 24 percent were divorced, and 15 percent were widowed.
16.2 million
Number of unmarried Americans 65 and older. These older Americans comprised 17 percent of all unmarried and single people 18 and older.
88
Number of unmarried men 18 and older for every 100 unmarried women in the United States.
52.5 million
Number of households maintained by unmarried men or women. These households comprised 45 percent of households nationwide.
31.7 million
Number of people who lived alone. They comprised 27 percent of all households, up from 17 percent in 1970.
This seems like bad news for wedding photographers, but it should also be noted that the American population is also growing, with an estimated 310.3 million people, up from 281 million. While the numbers still add up to a loss of about a million less people married now than ten years ago, the figures aren’t as dire as they might first appear.
Still, the trend is downward, which is always bad news for the wedding photographer.
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