The Singles Map

[lillibet]

This explains a few things:

Comments

[deguspice.livejournal.com]

I wonder how the US Census Bureau counts same-sex partnered people? But that still doesn't explain the east/west split.

(I'd rather see the chart showing the split as a percentage than an absolute number)

[lillibet.livejournal.com]

that J. posted below might be more what you're looking for. (This map)

[deguspice.livejournal.com]

I looked at the chart. It's interesting, but the author changed the criteria, so it isn't quite the same info.

[gilana]

Someone mentioned this to me the other day, and I immediately thought about your move to SF :)

[lillibet.livejournal.com]

Hey, it worked! :)

[jicama]

Here's another version that only considers 18-44yo college grads. This version indicates more single women than men in SF, though Silicon Valley proper is still skewed toward men.

http://elvaliente.wordpress.com/2008/04/04/towards-a-better-singles-map/

[xthread.livejournal.com]

I see you've discovered one of the reasons for my move north...

[joyeous.livejournal.com]

Wow. I guess Jersey girls really do have it rough.

[jelazakazone.livejournal.com]

I am totally confused by this. How can there be so many more single men on the West Coast?

[lillibet.livejournal.com]

Well, there's Silicon Valley. Jason posted this map (http://elvaliente.wordpress.com/2008/04/04/towards-a-better-singles-map/) which shows less of a skew when you look at percentages and focus on 18-to-44 year old college grads.

[jelazakazone.livejournal.com]

I still don't really understand it. How can there be so many more single men in one area of the country or single women in another area?

[melted-snowball.livejournal.com]

Well, there are certainly places in this country (Canada) where this happens for work-related reasons: the most natural example is probably Fort McMurray, which had (essentially) 12,000 single guys and 9,000 single women. (It's an oil town.)

[jelazakazone.livejournal.com]

I guess I can sort of understand that, but explain NJ to me. What the heck? Why are there so many more single women there? Does is it have to do with a high divorce rate there or what?

[lillibet.livejournal.com]

Because people don't stay where they're born and more men move west and more women move east? That would be my guess. Alaska in the early 90's was six-to-one and I believe Australia is still skewed, but I'm not sure by how much.

[jelazakazone.livejournal.com]

See, Alaska I can understand, but what about New Jersey? Also, I'm a total innumerate. I don't understand graphs and charts at all. I may have a Masters, but it's not in Math:). I'm not a visual learner at all and graphs and charts just completely confound me. I guess that's why I needed a mathematician in my life:)

[sethg]

One contributing factor in the West may be the number of men from Mexico who have come north to work in the agriculture industry.

[jelazakazone.livejournal.com]

Hmmm, now that makes a lot of sense. Same would be true in TX too, eh?

[xthread.livejournal.com]

No, they mostly won't be caught in the census data.

[thatwesguy.livejournal.com]

I had no idea I was doing it so completely wrong. Thanks for the data.