Marriage Rate · Kansas

## What this measures

For every 1,000 women aged 15 and over living in Kansas, the number who said they got married in the past 12 months.

## Why it matters

Marriage timing tracks household formation, which drives demand for housing and family-related spending, and it shifts with economic confidence. Counting from survey answers by where people live avoids the distortion of destination-wedding states, where marriage licenses far outnumber residents marrying.

## How to read it

Per 1,000 women aged 15 and over. Most states sit between about 14 and 20. Compare trends, not single years: small states can move a point or two from sampling alone.

## What it does not say

It counts women, so each marriage between a man and a woman is counted once and a marriage between two women twice; marriages between two men are not counted. The denominator is all women 15 and over, married or not, which is a crude rate: the National Center for Family & Marriage Research (Bowling Green State University) publishes refined rates from the same questions per 1,000 unmarried women, which run higher. The question started in 2008. Survey estimates carry sampling error: in small states a year-to-year move of a few tenths can be noise (Census publishes margins of error with each table). The 2005 survey covered people in households only; from 2006 it also covers group quarters such as dorms, prisons and nursing homes. There is no 2020 point: the Census Bureau did not release standard 2020 1-year estimates because the pandemic disrupted collection.

## Source

U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 1-year estimates, table B12501 (marriages in the last year by sex by marital status for the population 15 years and over), read through the Census Data API. A work of the U.S. Government (17 U.S.C. §105), public domain. This product uses the Census Bureau Data API but is not endorsed or certified by the Census Bureau. The rate is a Palanor calculation following the National Center for Family & Marriage Research's approach of counting women from the ACS marital-events question: women who married in the last year (B12501_010E) ÷ all women 15 and over (B12501_007E) × 1,000. Each point keeps both counts.