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Marriage rate of women, per 1,000 women 15+: U.S. states ranked (2025)

Measure: Marriage rate of women, per 1,000 women 15 and over (derived). All 50 states and District of Columbia with data in Marriage and divorce rates by state, ranked from highest to lowest. Reference period: 2025.

Licence: Public domain (U.S. federal government work).
Data last updated: 2026-11-09

Download full table CSV Source: U.S. Census Bureau (Table B12501) (opens in a new tab)Source: U.S. Census Bureau (Table B12503) (opens in a new tab)

National value: 16.7 (United States).

Small states, hard to see on the map:

DC 16
RI 18.2
DE 16.9
CT 12.1
NJ 15.2
MD 15
MA 15.4
VT 13.9
NH 14.3

Lowest: 12.1 to 15
Group 2: 15 to 16
Group 3: 16 to 17
Group 4: 17 to 18.9
Highest: 18.9 to 24.4

The map is a visual summary; every value is in the table below, which is the keyboard and screen-reader path. Groups are quintiles of the values shown (a derived grouping). Boundaries: Natural Earth (public domain), simplified. Alaska and Hawaii are shown as insets, not to scale.

Rank is derived by Quadranac: 1 = highest value; ties share a rank. The ranked value is itself derived; see the source table for the method. Values are as published in the source table.


1	Utah	24.4
2	Wyoming	21.4
3	Kansas	20.6
4	North Dakota	20.4
5	Colorado	20.2
6	Arkansas	19.6
6	Idaho	19.6
8	Indiana	19
8	Tennessee	19
10	Arizona	18.9
10	Nebraska	18.9
12	Texas	18.7
13	Kentucky	18.5
13	Oklahoma	18.5
15	Rhode Island	18.2
16	Missouri	18
17	Wisconsin	17.8
18	Washington	17.5
19	South Carolina	17.4
20	South Dakota	17.2
21	North Carolina	17
22	Alabama	16.9
22	Delaware	16.9
24	Ohio	16.8
24	Virginia	16.8
26	West Virginia	16.7
27	Illinois	16.3
28	Iowa	16.1
28	Minnesota	16.1
28	Pennsylvania	16.1
31	District of Columbia	16
31	Hawaii	16
33	California	15.9
33	Oregon	15.9
35	Massachusetts	15.4
36	New York	15.3
37	Georgia	15.2
37	New Jersey	15.2
39	Michigan	15.1
40	Maryland	15
40	Nevada	15
42	Florida	14.9
43	Mississippi	14.8
44	Alaska	14.7
45	Louisiana	14.3
45	New Hampshire	14.3
47	New Mexico	14.1
48	Vermont	13.9
49	Maine	13.1
50	Montana	12.8
51	Connecticut	12.1

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 1-year estimates, Table B12501: Marriages in the Last Year by Sex by Marital Status for the Population 15 Years and Over
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 1-year estimates, Table B12503: Divorces in the Last Year by Sex by Marital Status for the Population 15 Years and Over. Reference period: 2025.

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U.S. states ranked by marriage rate of women, per 1,000 women 15 and over (derived) (2025). Data: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey, ACS 1-year estimates, Tables B12501 and B12503; rank derived by Quadranac. Data last updated 2026-11-09. https://quadranac.com/rankings/us-states-by-marriage-rate-of-women-per-1000-women-15-and-over/

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