What is the percentage of gay marriages in us
One in 10 LGBT Americans Married to Same-Sex Spouse
Story Highlights
- 9.6% of LGBT adults in the U.S. are married to a homosexual spouse
- Number of same-sex marriages have increased since 2016
- Opposite-sex marriages, partnerships more ordinary among bisexual adults
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- About one in 10 LGBT adults in the U.S. (9.6%) are married to a queer spouse, with a slightly smaller proportion (7.1%) living with a same-sex local partner. Half of LGBT adults have never been married, while 11.4% are married to an opposite-sex spouse and 9.5% are either divorced or separated.
Overall, less than 1% of U.S. adults are married to a same-sex spouse. The greatest percentage of Americans, 47.7%, are married to an opposite-sex spouse.
| U.S. adults | LGBT adults | |
|---|---|---|
| % | % | |
| Married to opposite-sex spouse | 47.7 | 11.4 |
| Married to same-sex spouse | 0.6 | 9.6 |
| Living with opposite-sex domestic partner | 8.1 | 9.2 |
| Living with same-sex domestic partner | 0.4 | 7.1 |
| Single/Never married | 22.9 | 50.5 |
| Separated | 2.4 | 2.0 |
| Divorced | 9.5 | 7.5 |
| Widowed | 5.9 | 2.5 |
| No opinion | 2.6 | 0.4 |
These results are based on aggregated statistics from 2020 Gallup surveys, encompassing int
Support for gay marriage reaches all-time tall, survey finds
Seventy percent of Americans help same-sex marriage, according to the 11th annual American Principles Survey, the uppermost percentage recorded by a major national poll. The results, released Monday, set up just 28 percent of respondents challenge the right of gay couples to wed.
Approval crossed the political divide, with majorities of Democrats (80 percent) and independents (76 percent) supporting same-sex marriage, and 50 percent of Republicans, according to the poll conducted by the Public Religion Investigate Institute (PRRI) in partnership with the Brookings Institution.
Most major religious denominations assist marriage equality, too, including white mainline Protestants (79 percent), Hispanic Roman Catholics (78 percent), religious non-Christians (72 percent) Hispanic Protestants (68 percent), white Catholics (67 percent), Shadowy Protestants (57 percent) and other Christian denominations (56 percent).
Religiously unaffiliated Americans were the most supportive, with 90 percent endorsing same-sex marriage.
White evangelicals stood out as the only denomination where a majority opposed lgbtq+ marriage, 63 percent to 34
U.S. cities with the uppermost rate of same-sex married couples
The exact number of same-sex married couples in the U.S. is unknown (the Census Bureau is still working toward making improvements to this measurement), but federal tax returns provide perhaps the closest estimation. After all, about 96 percent of married tax filers file jointly, according to the Tax Policy Center. A recent report from the center estimates in 2015 — the year same-sex marriage was legalized across the U.S. — there were 250,450 same-sex married tax filers (about 0.48 percent of all married tax filers), up from about 131,080 in 2013 and 183, 280 in 2014 (when same-sex marriage was only recognized in some states).
"Same-sex joint filers are generally younger, higher income, less likely to claim dependent children (especially for male couples), and more geographically concentrated than are different-sex filers," according to the Tax Policy Center's new report.
While married homosexual couples tend to acquire higher incomes, the income of male couples was more than 40 percent higher than that of straight couples and female couples. The average adjusted gross income of male couples in 2015 was about $165,960, ver
Number of Married Same-Sex Couples
Two years ago, on June 26, 2015, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Obergefell v. Hodges that the Constitution guarantees lgbtq+ couples the right to marry and to possess their marriages recognized by the states. And four years ago, on June 26, 2013, the Court ruled in United States v. Windsor that the federal government must notice marriages between same-sex couples. This research brief shows:
- As of June 2017, nearly 1.1 million LGBT people in the United States are married to someone of the same sex, implying that more than 547,000 same-sex couples are married nationwide.
- Since Obergefell, at least 157,000 same-sex couples married.
- Since Windsor, at least 317,000 same-sex couples married.
New data from the Gallup Daily Tracking Survey—a nationally-representative survey that includes a measure of LGBT identity—indicate that 4.3% of adults in the United States identify as LGBT. Statistics from the U.S. Census Bureau indicate that there are more than 249 million U.S. adults. Applying the LGBT percentage from Gallup to the Census population data indicates that more than 10.7 million adults in the Merged States identify as
LGBT. The Gallup data in
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The number of married same-sex couples in the United States has increased dramatically in recent years, as reported in a recent Bulletin on U.S. family change from the Population Reference Bureau.1
In June 2015, the U.S. Supreme Court legalized same-sex marriage in every U.S. state; a 2013 ruling required the federal government to recognize state-sanctioned marriages of same-sex couples. Married same-sex couples totaled an estimated 486,000 by October 2015, representing 45 percent of all same-sex couples, up from the 2013 level of 230,000 married same-sex couples, 21 percent of the total (see figure).
These estimates, by demographers at the Williams Institute at the University of California Los Angeles School of Regulation, are based on the Census Bureau’s American Community Survey (ACS) data for 2013 and 2014 and the 2015 Gallup Daily Hunting Survey, a privately-managed telephone survey.
The Williams Institute recently launched a new interactive website with customizable graphs, charts, and maps on queer couple demographics based on ACS state-level data and other sources. The site displays county-level estimates of same-sex couples calculated by Willi