Census Bureau: D.C. Exceeds All States in Percentage of Same-Sex Couple Households; But Only 0.9% of U.S. Households Headed by Same-Sex Couples – By CNS News Staff (CNS News) / Nov 23, 2022
(CNSNews.com) – Only 0.9% percent of American households in 2021 were headed by a same-sex couple in which two people of the same-sex were either married to each other or in an “intimate relationship” with each other, according to newly released data from the Census Bureau’s American Community Survey.
There were 127,544,730 total households in the United States in 2021, according to the Census Bureau. Of these, 1,209,462—or 0.9 percent—were what the Census Bureau calls same-sex couple households.
None of the 50 states had a number of same-sex couple households that accounted for more than 1.4 percent of their total.
