Who Americans marry
For U.S.-born people who married in the past year, the race or ethnicity of their spouse — by their own group, men and women separately. Census microdata, 2020–2024.
Rows with fewer than 100 sampled newlyweds are faded: their shares can move several points from one survey to the next. Not shown, under 30 sampled newlyweds: Cambodian men (16), Cambodian women (27), Laotian men (15), Laotian women (18).
How this is counted
Most groups marry mostly within the group, but not equally: 87% of U.S.-born White women who married in the past year married a White man, while U.S.-born Black men married a Black woman 68% of the time and Black women married a Black man 82% of the time.
Newlyweds are people the American Community Survey records as married in the past 12 months, pooled over 2020–2024. A couple is a household's reference person and their opposite-sex spouse, so newly married people living in their parents' or someone else's home are not counted, and same-sex couples are not shown.
Groups follow Census practice: anyone Hispanic is Hispanic, whatever their race; White, Black and each Asian group are non-Hispanic people of that one race or Asian group alone. Chinese includes Taiwanese. People of two or more races, other Asian groups, American Indian and Pacific Islander people are in Other. Each row describes U.S.-born newlyweds; their spouses can be born anywhere.
Shares use the survey's person weights. The ACS is a sample, so groups with few newlyweds (marked on the chart) have wide margins of error.
Data: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2020–2024 5-year Public Use Microdata Sample, retrieved 2026-10-28. Build script: scripts/build-us-newlywed-spouses.py.