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The Insular City Off the Coast of America

By David Samuel McCalmont

Jan 19, 2026
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Just 38 percent of the adult residents of Manhattan are married, a figure about 12 points lower than that for the nation as a whole.

Fifty-one percent of Manhattan’s adult males and 48 percent of its adult females have never been married, a rate much higher than the national rate of 37 percent for men and 32 percent for women.

Among the 1.6 million reside…

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