Statistics of gay marriages in the united states

The exact number of same-sex married couples in the U. After all, about 96 percent of married tax filers file jointly, according to the Tax Policy Center. A new report from the center estimates in — the year same-sex marriage was legalized across the U. While married same-sex couples tend to have higher incomes, the income of male couples was more than 40 percent higher than that of straight couples and female couples.

Same-sex couples, the report notes, are more likely to be of working age and to live in major metropolitan areas and coastal states where incomes and living costs are relatively high. When the data broken down by state and the District of ColumbiaD. North Dakota came in last at 0.

The report also broke down the data by city technically U. Community Zones, or CZs to find those with the largest share of same-sex married couples. Here's the report's top 10 list:. Seattle is one of the cities with the largest number of same-sex female couples, totaling 2, in In Novemberthe city elected its first lesbian mayor : former U.

Attorney Jenny Durkan.

Rising Number of U.S. Households Are Headed by Married Same-Sex Couples

Massachusetts was the first state in the union to legalize same-sex marriage. It did so in Maymore than 10 years before gay marriage became legal across the U. Portland is one of the few U. While it may not get the gay-friendly credit often bestowed upon cities like San Francisco and New York, Portland was voted the eighth " gayest city in America " by The Advocate in IE 11 is not supported.

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