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July 6, 2007

144 – Single Guys Live in LA, Single Girls in NYC

Filed under: 21st Century Map, America., Non-Fictional, Statistics, USA — strangemaps @ 10:51 pm

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This map out of the National Geographic magazine was sent to me by Xyzzy, a name that gives nothing away as to gender affiliation or relationship status. If Xyzzy is female and single, she’s a bit more likely than average to live on the East Coast of the US. If he’s male and single, he might just live on the West Coast.

This map might explain why ‘Sex and the City’ is set in New York, and not in Los Angeles. And why there’s so much gang violence in LA. So why can’t all those single guys from LA and those thousands upon thousands of single girls from NYC meet up somewhere in the middle?

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112 Comments »

  1. unlikely to happen.

    the single men in LA are low-income, low status Mexicans. the single women in NYC are from wealthy backgrounds and looking for wealthier husbands.

    Comment by secret asian man — July 6, 2007 @ 11:31 pm

  2. Two things to consider:

    1. Given the size of many of these metro areas, the differences in the numbers of single men and single women are trivial. For instance, the Los Angeles metro area has 40,000 more single men than single women – and a total population of ~15 million. 40,000 people out of 15 million is nothing.

    2. The biggest group of “single women” is comprised not of Sex and the City types, but rather of elderly widows.

    Comment by Peter — July 7, 2007 @ 3:35 am

  3. I guess many people took that saying ‘Go west, young man’ a bit literally.

    Comment by MC — July 7, 2007 @ 3:38 am

  4. haha, Xyzzy is a famous “code” from a computer game, so I’m guessing it’s a guy (out west? :D)

    Comment by karan — July 7, 2007 @ 8:54 am

  5. Las solteras a Nueva York y los solteros a Los Angeles [ENG]

    En este curioso mapa publicado por el National Geographic Magazine podemos ver el reparto de solteros en USA. Mientras que en (más o menos) la mitad este (NY, Boston, Philadelphia, Washington DC, Memphis, Miami…) predominan las mujeres solteras, los…

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  6. that is crazy

    Comment by cuzoogle — July 7, 2007 @ 10:31 am

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  10. Because the middle is a dump.:-D

    On geek forums, the usual analysis of this map is that all programmers move to California and programmers are, unfortunately, disproportionately male.

    Comment by Leo Petr — July 7, 2007 @ 2:42 pm

  11. haha…I like your analysis of gang violence in LA: too many single dudes running around not getting laid!

    Comment by John — July 7, 2007 @ 6:04 pm

  12. I poked around at the National Geographic site, and couldn’t find the map (or the article that might have discussed the stats). No sign of it in the Feb 2007 online content (http://www7.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0702/).

    Comment by *** Dave — July 7, 2007 @ 6:54 pm

  13. Interesting.

    Comment by Chattanoogan — July 7, 2007 @ 7:17 pm

  14. @Peter:
    You are right in pointing out that the number of single men and women is puny, compared to the general population of their areas. As Mark Twain once said: “there are three kinds of untruths: lies, damned lies and statistics.” And I do suppose the elderly widows have a harder time at finding a partner than the Kim Cattralls of this world.

    @Leo Petr:
    interesting explanation!

    @*** Dave:
    The map is referenced as from the NGM’s Feb ‘07 issue on several sites. Not all maps in the magazine are part of a larger article, and not all articles are mentioned online. I could check in my own issue, gimme a sec (…) Yep, it’s in there. Additional explanation for the overrepresentation of females on the East Coast: “58% of college students are women, giving most of the East’s college towns a female majority.” And: “Areas with more single men often have large numbers of illegal immigrants, some 58% of whom are male.”

    Comment by strangemaps — July 7, 2007 @ 8:54 pm

  15. What eHarmony could do with this! Moving companies and real estate agents could employ this in their marketing campaigns. Are you a desperate woman? It’s your loaction! Get packing and find the one you’ve been waiting for…..

    Comment by getboundless — July 7, 2007 @ 8:56 pm

  16. meanwhile in Indiana- all the single men up north are going to deja-vu, showgirls, and the casinos, while the single women are working at Indy night clubs, and digging for high-status, rich indy govt types?

    Comment by roach — July 7, 2007 @ 9:30 pm

  17. Denver is blue. I’m doomed.

    Comment by Patrick — July 7, 2007 @ 10:02 pm

  18. great map…I guess the singles convention should be held somewhere in the Breadbasket!

    Comment by Chris — July 8, 2007 @ 5:39 am

  19. let’s meet somewhere in the middle :)
    J.

    Comment by windwhisperer — July 8, 2007 @ 8:38 am

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  21. I think it might make more sense to show this in terms of percentages, not absolute numbers of people? (If I had their data and the time, I’d do it.)

    There is a similar map showing the sex ratio in each county of the US, which shows some of the same trends. The Northeast doesn’t look like as much of an outlier on that map, though, probably because the Northeast has some very large urban areas. New York, Washington, Philadelphia, and Boston are #1, 4, 6, 7 respectively. But this isn’t exactly what I’m looking for, because it counts children and married people. (Married couples almost always bring the sex ratio back towards 1:1, since except in Massachusetts they consist of one male and one female.)

    I wouldn’t be surprised to learn that states with more males have faster-growing economies, because places where the economy is growing faster probably have more risky ventures going on and risk tends to attract males more than females. The two cities out of the largest ten that have the largest proportion of females are Philadelphia and Detroit, which seems to support my idea.

    Comment by Isabel — July 8, 2007 @ 5:36 pm

  22. secret asian man, the wealthy women in NYC already have husbands. It’s us regular chicks who aren’t able to move in hedge fund manager circles who are left behind.

    Comment by Miriya — July 9, 2007 @ 3:55 am

  23. Right, I’m looking for jobs in LA immediately!

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    Comment by Megan — July 9, 2007 @ 4:02 am

  24. Interesting map, but there doesn’t seem to be a lot of info from the North western states, i wonder why….

    Comment by Villa Rental — July 9, 2007 @ 4:08 am

  25. Seattle has a nice big blue blob. I wonder if that’s the Microsoft effect?

    Comment by Aaron — July 9, 2007 @ 3:42 pm

  26. For the first time ever I’m glad to be living in a Red state…

    Comment by jack — July 10, 2007 @ 4:38 am

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  30. I wish I knew which of these “single” men and women liked girls. I’d move there quick.

    Comment by eleanor — July 10, 2007 @ 7:08 pm

  31. TO MILLIONER! Det er meget, meget flot. Jeg er saa stolt af dig!

    Comment by Your biggest fan! — July 10, 2007 @ 8:52 pm

  32. For all you foreigners out there who don’t understand Jack’s comment (see #26 above), it’s a quip about American politics.

    After color TV’s had become the norm in the USA during the 1970’s, American news anchors started using colored maps to represent each US state’s preference in Presidential elections. It was natural to use red and blue to represent the Democratic and Republican parties, since they appear on the American flag with white, and as a neutral color they though white would nicely represent a state that hasn’t been called yet.

    However, some networks used red for the Democratic Party and blue for the Republicans, while others used the opposite. Not until the famously-close 2000 election was “blue Democrats, red Republicans” standard chosen by them all. Since the decisive state of Florida took so long to be decided, Americans saw the map flashed on their TV screens for about six more weeks, instead of forgetting about them the day afterwards as usual. American political commentators started talking about Republican-leaning states as “red states”, and Democratic-leaning ones as “blue states”, which they still do today.

    Jack’s comment makes it clear that he is a Democrat, probably somewhere in the Northeast.

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  35. One needs to be careful about not just getting data from a reliable source, but also UNDERSTANDING the data itself.

    Several years ago, a well-known U.S. national magazine targeting young women ran a story with a title along the lines of, “Best Places in America to Find a Husband.” The author had taken the raw numbers from the 1990 U.S. Deciennial Census (the most recent at the time), and ranked the counties that had the highest proportion of single men, ages 18-35. Based on that ranking, the author concluded that the “best place to find a husband” was Brazoria County, Texas, a largely rural county directly south of Houston.

    What the author didn’t note was that most of those single men lived in what the Bureau of the Census catergorizes as “group quarters,” which includes living arrangements such as college dorms, nursing homes and — the case of Brazoria County — six different state prison facilities.

    Hey, good luck with that husband-hunting, ladies!

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  37. East Coast girls are hip, I really dig those styles they wear. . .

    Comment by sestamibi — July 12, 2007 @ 9:48 pm

  38. The Atlantic Monthly used to do a series of maps dervied from US Census data. One of those dealt with availability of telephones. Another was the map of single men and women.

    Because it was done by census areas, and not by metro areas, it included more places.

    Alaska has always had the reputation of far more men than women. Some would say, “the odds are good the goods are odd”
    Catch & Release the Insider’s Guide to Alaska Men

    But there are a few gems.

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  47. For those who are using this map to locate a lady bonanza, bear in mind that an above-average proportion of the men in NYC are gay, so there’s even less competition for that motherlode (girlfriendlode?) than it looks like!

    – tom

    Comment by Tom — July 21, 2007 @ 12:26 pm

  48. how do you do ?

    Comment by omid — July 24, 2007 @ 5:13 am

  49. So why can’t all those single guys from LA and those thousands upon thousands of single girls from NYC meet up somewhere in the middle?

    Because then they’d have to go to Kansas and bloody Oklahoma.

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  51. hhmmm….im moving west..t

    Comment by toni — July 30, 2007 @ 7:52 am

  52. Yes, but did they ask the participants if they are straight or gay? There are many many single men in San Francisco where I live, but they all seem to be interested in each other (and not the ladies)!

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  55. I am coming to San Francisco to finish my masters and doctorate. I am glad to know there are lots of ya’ll guys out there. I am from Louisiana and have been living in New Mexico for the last year and a half. I don’t know how some of you guys put your picture up here so mine are on my website.

    Comment by Teri J Kent — August 30, 2007 @ 5:20 pm

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    Comment by Teri J Kent — August 30, 2007 @ 5:21 pm

  57. It means 40,000 or more.

    Comment by kris — September 1, 2007 @ 7:20 pm

  58. ore and more single friends feel too busy to date, then they turn to online dating. Do most singles find their match

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    tallhub.com, it is for tall singles to date tall partner. I found that most members on that site are really seriouse on love.

    Comment by tallfriend — September 11, 2007 @ 7:52 am

  59. Man, I love this site! If you’re reading this still, #55 (Teri) — a word of caution about the single men of San Francisco.

    It’s San Francisco.

    If that doesn’t ring any bells, two more words: Castro District.

    Comment by El Santo — September 14, 2007 @ 10:13 pm

  60. Surprising that nobody has pointed out that the boy version Sex and the City (Entourage) is appropriately based in LAX.

    Comment by traoki — September 19, 2007 @ 4:50 am

  61. Moths to the flame.

    Hotter women live in California (attracts more single dudes)

    Richer dudes live in NYC, well at least flashier with the cash (attracts more single chics)

    Characters on Entourage & Sex in the City both seem to validate that.

    Comment by dougefresh — September 19, 2007 @ 5:19 am

  62. I think it’s unlike to happen,
    now most singles turn to online dating, I have some friends are dating on tallfriends.com, they said people on that website treat love seriously.

    Comment by tallgirl — September 19, 2007 @ 6:34 am

  63. And the more time we spend looking at this map the more time we’ll spend single!!!! It’s a conspiracy to ensure that this map lives on!!!

    Comment by Just Brad — October 9, 2007 @ 5:48 am

  64. This beautiful single woman that are still single and are str8, they should come to Los Cabos to find a real latin lover like me, I am looking for a long term realtionship. Why do woamn are so hard to hook nowdays? the world is getting craysy and the roles have changed.

    Comment by arthur — November 11, 2007 @ 7:51 pm

  65. The map is misleading as it doesn’t adjust for overall population differences between areas examined. There’s no standardization of the measure. No valid conclusions can be drawn from this map.

    Comment by bob — November 25, 2007 @ 8:14 pm

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  69. to Bob,

    I prefer the map giving numbers unscaled to population. Otherwise you would have huge spots all over the country where a town of 50 has 25 unmarried women, and the percentage is huge. That doesn’t provide any meaningful information, i.e. I’m not going to move there to pick up ladies, whereas, thanks to this map, my bags are packed for NY.

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  70. I’m not surprised that the immediate St. Louis metropolitan area has more single men than single women…most of the singles groups I’ve been a member of or have checked out are predominantly male. It is especially true of the Catholic singles groups in the St. Louis area. (Lucky for me, I have lady friends in Erie, PA, where I plan to visit this summer.)

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  72. None of the bicoastals want to meet up in what they call “flyover country”!

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  74. I live on the KY/TN line, and it’s very interesting to see that there are more single men then women in the Fort Campbell, KY area. Cool map. Thanks for sharing.

    Comment by April — April 3, 2008 @ 3:54 am

  75. Wow, I can’t believe that the highest concentration of single girls are in NYC. The fact that this is a map out of the National Geographic shows the credibility as well! I’m almost inclined to go to NYC to poll single girls for their response to this…

    Cheers!

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    Comment by inderjeet — May 13, 2008 @ 9:59 pm

  77. I have lived in NYC for several years now and I don’t even have any single guy friends. oh wait i do – but they are both gay. Me & all my single girlfriends just moan and complain, day in day out b/c this city is overun with single girls and the single straight men are few and far between and they know it – the have huge egos because they know they have the advantage here. It is not fun. I need to move!

    Comment by NYCgirl — May 17, 2008 @ 11:01 pm

  78. I too have lived in NYC for a few years and the whole time have been single. I’m from the midwest, where I always had a boyfriend or at least it seemed easy to get a date. Total opposite here in NY! All of my guy friends back home think it’s so strange that I have trouble out here, they all tell me that I am the most beautiful girl from our school, that they always wanted to hook up with me, that they’d take me out in a second if I’d let them…blah blah blah… and here in NYC I spend many a night home alone.

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  79. Let me catch a good looking singel man and he will not be singel for long time after that :D

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  80. L.A. is a cesspool of shit. It’s true. There’s no way to get pussy out here for a man.

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  84. Am i missing something, but what does this prove?

    Comment by Dating — July 21, 2008 @ 4:32 am

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  86. Its too bad for the Ladies in NYC. I live in Richmond VA. Every bar scene is full of dudes. The girls are treated like Queens out on the town. Im not into it cause its all about who can compete to impress them. Im laid back in nature so its not my style to overflex my ego

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    Comment by nigist — August 14, 2008 @ 8:28 am

  88. dating

    Comment by scoot wade — September 15, 2008 @ 4:23 pm

  89. If “single” includes divorced and widowed people regardless of age, that would explain some of what I am seeing in my area (downstate Illinois).

    The two small blue dots, almost side by side, southwest of Chicago are Bloomington-Normal and Champaign-Urbana, both home to large state universities. Other blue dots (male plurality communities) in neighboring states are also university towns.

    Between Chicago and St. Louis there are two small red (female plurality) dots and a slightly larger one.

    The larger dot is Springfield, the state capital. I am guessing the female plurality here is attributable to a high number of state-employed clerical workers plus a high number of hospital and health care employees (there are two fairly large regional hospitals and a medical school there.)

    The smaller red dots are Peoria and Decatur, both industrial towns with declining economies in recent years. Here I am guessing the female plurality consists mostly of middle-aged and older divorcees or widows, whose husbands may have worked in the local factories before they closed or downsized. Many of the “single women” in these communities could be retired, with grown children who have moved elsewhere to find work. Or they may be single mothers.

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    Comment by odeneho — February 23, 2009 @ 4:50 pm

  98. I’m a single guy moving to NYC from San Francisco. Given what I read here I should have no trouble meeting single girls, hahaha. Well, I would love to meet new people.

    Comment by Delfo — February 28, 2009 @ 2:33 am

  99. Ok, as a single girl who has lived in both New York and LA and who is a former professional Los Angeles matchmaker. There may be more single guys in LA, but they’re not interested in a long term relationship any more than most of the single girls in LA are. Most people of both genders in LA are looking over their current partner’s shoulder for a newer, better thing. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve heard, “I just have to ask myself if I’d really want to be their bf/gf if I landed a TV show, sold my script, got a movie deal etc. And the answer is usually, no.”

    In terms of NY, I’m newly single here, but it does seem to me that the market is saturated with successful, attractive, ambitious women who are really not getting dates. However, I know way more people in NY who are actually married than I ever did in 7 years of living in LA.

    Dating is hard everywhere, particularly in markets like LA and NY that self-select for the best and brightest. My advice is to concentrate on being your absolute best self, physically, mentally, and emotionally, get out and be social, and let the rest work itself out.

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  100. thank you

    Comment by Tony — May 4, 2009 @ 2:53 am

  101. thanks for this map..
    good 
    luck

    Comment by Solomon — May 11, 2009 @ 7:43 am

  102. merci

    Comment by aspicco . — May 17, 2009 @ 5:28 am

  103. <<>>

    I live in LA and and I have to agree. In LA there is always another event, more singles activities. Everyone looks to date up/ and if you don’t find the someone this weekend, you will next weekend. And the actor/Hollywood component contributes to it.

    Being single is related to where you live imo, and smaller towns tend to encourage pairing up more. All my friends in my small hometown are married and if they get divorced, it is not long before they are married again.

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