With Valentine’s Day around the corner and about 34 percent of all U.S. adults having never been married, the personal-finance website WalletHub today released its report on 2020’s Best & Worst States for Singles. To help unattached Americans improve their chances of finding love, WalletHub compared the 50 states across 29 key indicators of dating-friendliness. The data set ranges from share of single adults to movie costs to nightlife options per capita.
Source: WalletHub
Best States For Singles
- Florida
- California
- New York
- Pennsylvania
- Ohio
- Illinois
- Wisconsin
- Massachusetts
- Michigan
Worst States for Singles
- Mississippi
- Alabama
- Alaska
- Kentucky
- Kansas
- Wyoming
- New Mexico
- North Dakota
- Arkansas
- West Virginia
Notes of interest:
- Louisiana has the highest share of single adults, 54.05 percent, which is 1.3 times higher than in Utah, the state with the lowest at 42.56 percent.
- California has the most fitness and recreational facilities (per square root of population), 0.702745, which is 10.1 times more than in Hawaii, the state with the fewest at 0.069602.
- North Dakota has the lowest unemployment rate for the single population, 4.58 percent, which is 2.8 times lower than in Mississippi, the state with the highest at 12.70 percent.
