If you’ve recently made it to the big 4-0 and never gone down the aisle, you’re definitely not alone: About 25% of 40-year-olds in the US have yet to be married, per 2021.
If you’ve recently made it to the big 4-0 and never gone down the aisle, you’re definitely not alone: About 25% of 40-year-olds in the US have yet to be married, per 2021 stats from the US Census Bureau cited by the Pew Research Center—a record high that continues a downward trend since the ’60s in tying the knot. Just over a decade ago, in 2010, that percentage hovered at 20%, leading Pew to deem its most recent findings a “significant increase.” Go back even further, to 1980, and that figure was as low as 6%.
