The number of same-sex couple households in the U.S. surpassed one million for the first time in 2021, The New York Times reports, per recently-released data from the Census Bureau.
The data comes from the annual American Community Survey that accompanies the decennial census. According to the latest survey, there were around 1.2 million same-sex couple households in 2021. Nearly 60 percent, about 710,000, were married, and about 500,000 were unmarried but living together.
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