There were just under a million same-sex couple households in the United States in 2019, and most of them were married, the US Census Bureau announced.
Of the 980.000 households of same-sex couples, 58 percent are married, and 42 percent are unmarried partners, according to a study by the US Census Bureau, which stated that there were slightly more female households than male households, writes N1.
The United States had 122 million households in 2019. The number of gay and lesbian households is higher than 980, since that figure reflected only same-sex couples living together.
Since 2014, the year before the US Supreme Court legalized same-sex marriage across the US, the number of married same-sex households has increased by nearly 70 percent, or by 568.110 couples.
According to research, 84 percent of members of same-sex households are engaged in work, while this percentage is lower for members of married unions of different sexes - 80,4 percent.
The difference between gay and lesbian couples
However, there is a difference between gay and lesbian couples.
Research has shown that a higher number of married women from same-sex marriages are employed than married women living in heterosexual households, but the opposite is true in the case of married men from same-sex households.
The District of Columbia has the most same-sex households - 2,4 percent, Delaware 1,3 percent, Oregon 1,2 percent, Massachusetts 1,2 percent and Washington State 1,1 percent.
In the survey, the average age of respondents in a same-sex marriage is 48, and the average age of heterosexual spouses is 47.
Of the members of same-sex marriages, 82 percent declared themselves as white, about seven percent as black, almost four percent are Asian, and more than 13 percent are Latin American.
Same-sex married couples had a higher average income than heterosexual fraternal spouses - $107.210, compared to $96.932. In same-sex marriages, male couples earned more than female couples, $123.646 versus $87.690.
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