10 Percent of US Singles are using Dating Sites

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  • Tuesday, July 19 2011 @ 10:10 am
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Here are some dating statistics from the POF Blog. I believe these numbers are for 2011 and just concern the United States.

  • There are 54 million singles
  • Of those 10 percent (5.5 million) are currently using a dating service
  • 2.6 million pay for the service leaving 2.9 million that do not.
  • Overall 8.8 million have tried online dating

According to the US Census in 2009 there were 95.9 million unmarried people in the US. So I guess about 40 percent of those must be in some sort of common law relationship and just have not married. I believe that the 10 percent figure of people who use dating sites probably has not changed much over the last 5 years. The trick now for dating sites is to get the other 49 million to try online dating.