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America Counts: Stories About Same-Sex Couples
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America Counts StoryWhere Do Male and Female Same-Sex Couples Live?August 21, 2024East Coast, West Coast or somewhere in between: Where do same-sex couples live? Explore the top 10 counties for female and male same-sex couples.
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America Counts StoryInterracial Couples More Common Among Same-Sex CouplesNovember 08, 2023Male same-sex couples had higher median household incomes than female same-sex couples even though the shares with both partners working did not differ.
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America Counts StoryShare of U.S. Coupled Households Declined in 2020May 25, 2023Coupled households still made up more than half of all U.S. households but their share dropped since 2000.
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America Counts StoryNumber of Same-Sex Couple Households Exceeded 1 Million in 2021November 22, 2022Compare demographic and economic characteristics of U.S. same-sex and opposite-sex couple households in new Census Bureau table package and graphics.
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America Counts StoryMost Kids With Parent in Same-Sex Relationship Live With Female CoupleJuly 13, 2022Children whose parent was in a same-sex relationship in 2019 were more likely to be adopted than those living with a parent in an opposite-sex relationship.
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America Counts StoryUnmarried Opposite-Sex Couples Cohabitating More Likely to Both WorkJune 09, 2021New Census Bureau tables on America’s families show differences in the employment status of unmarried and married opposite-sex couples that live together.
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America Counts StoryHow Do People in Same-Sex Couples Compare to Opposite-Sex Couples?April 01, 2021A U.S. Census Bureau interactive data visualization shows characteristics of same-sex couples at the state level.
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America Counts StoryBoth in Gay Partnerships More Likely to Work than Opposite-Sex OnesDecember 29, 2020The American Community Survey shows the impact of age, children and marital status on the employment of same-sex couples compared to opposite-sex couples.
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America Counts StoryGay Married Couples More Likely in Labor Force Than Heterosexual OnesSeptember 30, 2020New 2019 American Community Survey data show labor force participation and work status characteristics were different for same- and opposite-sex married people.
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America Counts StoryFifteen Percent of Same-Sex Couples Have Children in Their HouseholdSeptember 17, 2020Male same-sex couples are more likely to adopt children than female same-sex couples.
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America Counts StoryMarried Couples’ Income Higher for Same-Sex Than Opposite-Sex CouplesSeptember 17, 2020The U.S. Census Bureau’s American Community Survey releases data on income and poverty levels of same-sex couples.
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America Counts StoryHomebodies: More Than a Third of Married Couples Live in State Where Both Were BornSeptember 09, 2020New interactive data visualization allows you to analyze trends in married couples’ birthplace, all the way back to 1900.
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America Counts StoryFor First Time, Same-Sex Couples in Current Population Survey TablesNovember 19, 2019U.S. Census Bureau now shows same-sex couples in its annual America’s Families and Living Arrangements table package, reflecting growing diversity of families.
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America Counts StoryWhere Same-Sex Couples LiveSeptember 18, 2019Just over half of same-sex couple households in the United States are female, but male same-sex households are more common in large cities.
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America Counts StoryCensus Questions Keep Up With the TimesDecember 21, 2017Reflecting societal changes, testing supports dropping terms such as "trolley bus" and "handheld computer."
Page Last Revised - April 9, 2025
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