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Married-Couple and Unmarried-Partner Households for the U.S. and Regions, 2000| Area | Total number of
coupled
households1 | Coupled
households
(% of all
households) | Married
couples
(% of coupled
households) | Unmarried
partners
(% of coupled
households) | Opposite sex
unmarried
partners
(% of coupled
households) | Same-sex
unmarried
partners
(% of coupled
households) |
|---|
| United States | 59,969,000 | 56.9% | 90.9% | 9.1% | 8.1% | 1.0% | | Region | | | | | | | | Northeast | 11,205,641 | 55.2 | 90.4 | 9.6 | 8.6 | 1.1 | | Midwest | 14,222,533 | 57.5 | 91.1 | 8.9 | 8.1 | 0.7 | | South | 21,549,582 | 56.7 | 91.6 | 8.4 | 7.4 | 1.0 | | West | 12,991,244 | 57.9 | 89.8 | 10.2 | 9.0 | 1.2 |
NOTE: Totals may not add up due to rounding. 1. Coupled households represent total of married-couple and unmarried-partner households. Source: U.S. Census Bureau, Census 2000 Summary File 1.
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