Americans Living Alone Rises
More Americans are living alone these days.
According to the Census Bureau, there were 22.4 million one-person households in 1989, double the figure from 1970, meaning that almost one in four (24%) of the nation’s 94 million householders lived by themselves.
Among the contributing factors cited by the Census Bureau were the desire for privacy, young adults delaying marriage and older persons who have either never married or live alone after a divorce or the death of a spouse.
Women living alone outnumbered men 13.5 million to 8.9 million. Half of the women living along (51%) were widowed; among male householders, nearly half (48%) had never married.
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