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This Is the Worst State in America to Be Married

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This Is the Worst State in America to Be Married

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Marriage rates in the United States have changed. Last year, 50% of adults lived in a household with a spouse, down from 52% a decade ago. The landscape for single people was radically different. One-person households were 28% of the total last year. In 1960, that was only 13%,  Going back even further, the median age at which women married in 1947 was 20.1 years old. Last year, the figure was 28.6 years.

For its recently released “Best Places in the US to be Married” study, photo lab Printique examined yearly divorces per 1,000 people, duration of current marriages and the number of people never married per 1,000. Currently, the national numbers are 20.1 years average duration of current marriages, 7.35 divorces in the past year per 1,000 people, and 339.8 per 1,000 have never married.

States in the southwest tended to have the worst numbers. Among the bottom 10 were New Mexico, Oklahoma and Texas. The state at the very bottom was Nevada. Not long ago, Reno was called the divorce capital of the world.

Maine was the best state to be married to. Half of the top 10 states were all in the northeast. All the states at the top had a small population. After Maine were New Hampshire, South Dakota, Iowa and Wisconsin.

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These are the 20 worst states in which to be married:

State Divorces per 1,000 Duration of marriages
Nevada 9.39 17.40
Georgia 8.51 18.40
Texas 8.24 18.00
New Mexico 8.91 20.30
Delaware 10.02 20.90
Oregon 8.95 19.20
Oklahoma 9.82 18.60
Indiana 9.18 20.20
Maryland 7.58 19.60
Utah 8.07 17.70
Louisiana 7.29 19.60
Mississippi 7.73 19.60
Arkansas 10.22 19.30
Arizona 7.95 20.10
Tennessee 9.00 19.50
Missouri 9.09 20.10
Virginia 7.85 19.60
Rhode Island 7.65 22.10
Colorado 7.07 17.60
Washington 7.48 18.20

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About the Author Douglas A. McIntyre →

Douglas A. McIntyre is the co-founder, chief executive officer and editor in chief of 24/7 Wall St. and 24/7 Tempo. He has held these jobs since 2006.

McIntyre has written thousands of articles for 24/7 Wall St. He is an expert on corporate finance, the automotive industry, media companies and international finance. He has edited articles on national demographics, sports, personal income and travel.

His work has been quoted or mentioned in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, NBC News, Time, The New Yorker, HuffPost USA Today, Business Insider, Yahoo, AOL, MarketWatch, The Atlantic, Bloomberg, New York Post, Chicago Tribune, Forbes, The Guardian and many other major publications. McIntyre has been a guest on CNBC, the BBC and television and radio stations across the country.

A magna cum laude graduate of Harvard College, McIntyre also was president of The Harvard Advocate. Founded in 1866, the Advocate is the oldest college publication in the United States.

TheStreet.com, Comps.com and Edgar Online are some of the public companies for which McIntyre served on the board of directors. He was a Vicinity Corporation board member when the company was sold to Microsoft in 2002. He served on the audit committees of some of these companies.

McIntyre has been the CEO of FutureSource, a provider of trading terminals and news to commodities and futures traders. He was president of Switchboard, the online phone directory company. He served as chairman and CEO of On2 Technologies, the video compression company that provided video compression software for Adobe’s Flash. Google bought On2 in 2009.

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