Wie viele Haushalte in den USA haben nur eine Person? [OC]

This data viz shows what percentage of households are occupied by 1 person. The visualization was created in Tableau and the data comes from the 2023 American Community Survey.

You can find an interactive version of this information in the [State Data Explorer](https://overflowdata.com/state-data/) I have created.

Let me know if you think there are things I should add.

Hawaii makes sense. Whenever someone tells me they’re moving alone to Hawaii to live the dream, in my head I know they’ll be back in a year. Yes, culturally there’s still a lot of multigenerational households, but in the end, the cost of living is too high and the wages too low to make it as a one-income household for most people.

Finally a map that’s not just wealth or cities.

what’s kinda striking is that dc has almost half of households as just one person, while places like california and hawaii, where you’d expect lots of singles, are actually at the bottom. looks like the insane housing costs in ca/hi/nj push people into sharing, but dc is this weird outlier because it’s packed with young, transient professionals who can afford or are willing to live alone for career reasons. and then on the other end you see north dakota, south dakota, west virginia showing up high too, which is probably not about young singles at all but older folks aging in place. so you’ve got this split story: urban dc with ambitious solo renters, and rural states with older populations living alone, while the supposedly “single-friendly” coastal expensive states are actually the most crowded

So, about 20 – 35 % (excluding DC, which isn’t a state). Color it all one color.

Can you make the same map but for the year 2000? Would be interesting to compare.