Statistics on Being Single and Living on My Own:

10%: Women age 45 to 54 who have never been married.  Compare that to 5% in 1972.

Source:  Time Magazine, Oct. 26th 2009

63%: A woman's increased risk of obesity after moving in with a significant other.

1: Number of years after moving in that a woman's risk of obesity starts to increase.

Source:  July 2009 Issue of Obesity - new research study of 6,949 individuals watched over a handful of years that linked weight change to relationship status.

42%: Number of Americans over the age of 18 that are single.  This includes people who have never married and people who are divorced or windowed.

Source:  U.S. Census Bureau.  All of the below stats are also from this source unless noted.

92 million: Number of single adults in America.

Women:  There are more single women then men.

60%:  Percentage of the single Americans 18 and older who have never been married

25%:   Percentage of the single Americans 18 and older who are divorced

15%:   Percentage of the single Americans 18 and older who are widowed

16%:   Percentage of single Americans who are aged 65 and older (15 million)

44%:   Percentage of U.S. households maintained by singles (50.7 millions homes)

27%:   Percentage of all American householders with a single person living on his/her own (30.5 million people)

2.5 million:  Number of single fathers in 2006, up from 400,000 in 1970.

10.4 million:  Number of single mothers living with children younger than 18, up from 3.4 million in 1970.

Source: America’s Families and Living Arrangements: 2006

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