Statistics

The data behind dating standards

US Census, CDC, and BLS numbers on height, income, education, body type, and the single population, the same data the calculator runs on.

US Dating Pool Statistics: Height, Income, Singles

A single hub for the US dating pool: the height, income, and singles numbers that drive every delusion calculation.

A country-by-country look at average male height and what it means for a six-foot standard around the world.

A look at the evidence on height preferences: how real the effect is, how large, and how it interacts with the supply of tall men.

Six-figure is common; multiple six-figures is not. The measured share of men at each high-income bar, and what it costs a dating pool.

The evidence on how much income matters in partner choice, how it differs by gender, and how it stacks against the supply of high earners.

How common obesity is by age, gender, and country, and how a fitness or not-obese filter changes the size of a dating pool.

How stated body-type preferences line up, or clash, with the real BMI distribution of single adults.

Women now out-earn men on college attainment, and that reshapes who can match whom by education.

How many US adults are actually single, broken down by age and gender, and why the number matters for pool math.

The single-men-to-single-women ratio is not 1 to 1 at most ages. Here is how it shifts and why it matters.

The never-married share has climbed for decades. Here is where it stands by age and what it means for the dating pool.