Census: Married Couples Run 59%, Women Run 8% of Family Households
Data from the American Community Survey (ACS) offers details of marriage and divorce rates and households with married couples, single parents and singles.
The U.S. Census Bureau Thursday released estimates from the American Community Survey (ACS), with local information for the combined years of 2007-2011 on stats from housing to education and marital status. Wheaton’s estimated population in 2011 is 53,238, a .7 percent increase from the 2010 estimate. The data showed about 27,651—52 percent—of the population is made up of females, 22,679 of whom are over the age of 15. Of the women over the age of 15, 11,727—51.7 percent—are married, with the exception of women separated from their spouse. In Illinois, 47.2 percent of women are married. More than a quarter of the women, 6,576—29 percent—have never been married and 2,291—10.1 percent—are divorced. About 30 percent of women statewide have …
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