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Same-Sex Partner Households
in U.S. Cities

The following table lists the ten U.S. Cities with the highest number of same-sex partner households. Nationwide, 701,733 same-sex partner households represented 0.6% of all coupled households in 2003, according to the Census Bureau. Of these, 363,072 were male partners and 338,661 were female partners.

Same-sex partner households by area	Number	Percent of all households in specified city
San Francisco, Calif.	8,902	2.7%
Fort Lauderdale, Fla.	1,418	2.1
Seattle, Wash.	4,965	1.9
Oakland, Calif.	2,650	1.8
Berkeley, Calif.	788	1.8
Atlanta, Ga.	2,833	1.7%
Minneapolis, Minn.	2,622	1.6
Washington, DC	3,678	1.5
Long Beach, Calif.	2,266	1.4
Portland, Ore.	3,017	1.3

Source: Married-Couple and Unmarried-Partner Households: 2000, U.S. Census Bureau, Census 2000.

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