America is more addicted to dating apps than ever. New research from the Pew Research Center shows that in the past two years, the percentage of US adults who had used a dating app tripled. In the last year, COVID-19 has made online dating sites even more indispensable for the single set. It has been hard for singles to meet potential significant others, since going out and being. In the last year, COVID-19 has made online dating sites even more indispensable for the single set. It has been hard for singles to meet potential significant others, since going out and being.

Three-in-ten U.S. adults say they have ever used a dating app or site, but the share of Americans who have done so differs sharply by marital status.

Adults who have never been married or who are currently living with a partner are the most likely to say they have ever used an online dating service: 52% and 46%, respectively, say this. By comparison, 35% of Americans who are divorced, separated or widowed say they have ever used a dating site or app, while 16% of married adults say the same, according to a new analysis of a Pew Research Center survey conducted in October 2019.

Pew Research Center has long studied the changing nature of romantic relationships and the role of digital technology in how people meet potential partners and navigate web-based dating platforms. This post focuses on the patterns, experiences and attitudes related to online dating in America. These findings are based on a survey conducted Oct. 16 to 28, 2019, among 4,860 U.S. adults. This includes those who took part as members of Pew Research Center’s American Trends Panel (ATP), an online survey panel that is recruited through national, random sampling of residential addresses, as well as respondents from the Ipsos KnowledgePanel who indicated that they identify as lesbian, gay or bisexual. The margin of sampling error for the full sample is plus or minus 2.1 percentage points. The 2015 data were collected via a telephone survey of 2,001 U.S. adults conducted June 10 to July 12, 2015 (for more, see the 2015 survey’s methodology).

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Recruiting ATP panelists by phone or mail ensures that nearly all U.S. adults have a chance of selection. This gives us confidence that any sample can represent the whole U.S. adult population (see our Methods 101 explainer on random sampling). To further ensure that each ATP survey reflects a balanced cross-section of the nation, the data are weighted to match the U.S. adult population by gender, race, ethnicity, partisan affiliation, education and other categories.

For more, see the report’s methodology about the project. Here are the questions used for this report, along with responses.

The share of Americans who have ever used an online dating platform has gone up across marital status groups, but the increase has been most pronounced among those living with a partner. The share of cohabiting Americans who say they had ever used a dating site or app has roughly tripled from 15% in 2015 to 46% today. (Pew Research Center’s 2015 survey about online dating was conducted via telephone, while the 2019 survey was fielded online through the Center’s American Trends Panel. In addition, there were some changes in question wording between these surveys. Please read the methodology section for full details on how the 2019 survey was conducted.)

Among the never-married, younger generations are more likely than older generations to have used online dating services. For example, 65% of never-married Millennials (those born between 1981 and 1996) say they have used a dating platform. The same is true for 53% of never-married Gen Xers (born 1965-1980). By comparison, just 29% of never-married Baby Boomers (born 1946-1964) have used an online dating platform. (Relatively few adults in the Silent Generation – born between 1928 and 1945 – never married, so online dating patterns of this subgroup can’t be assessed.)

Although married adults report the lowest rate of previous online dating use, married Millennials are more likely than older generations to have used a dating app or site before. Around three-in-ten married Millennials (31%) say they have used an online dating platform, compared with 17% among married Gen Xers and fewer than one-in-ten among married Boomers (7%) and those in the Silent Generation (4%).

Most never-married users of online dating platforms say they are currently using one of these services or have recently done so. Around a third of online daters who have never been married (34%) – which translates to 18% of all never-married adults – say they are currently using a dating site or app. An additional 28% say they are not currently using an online dating service but have done so in the past year. About four-in-ten online daters who have never tied the knot say that the last time they used a dating site or app was either between one and five years ago or more than five years ago.

As one might expect, relatively few Americans who are married or living with a partner are currently active on dating platforms. Still, among those who say they have ever used an online dating platform, 5% of cohabiting and 3% of married people say they are currently using one of these services. That means 1% of all married adults and 2% of all cohabiting adults in the U.S. are current users of dating sites or apps.

Note: This is an update of a post originally published Feb. 18, 2016. Here are the questions used for this report, along with responses, and its methodology.

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• 72%

  got better at prioritizing important things in their lives

• 66%

  got better at caring for their mental health

Good things can come out of the worst circumstances, and pandemics are no exception. While many expected the pandemic to cause a deluge of post-traumatic stress (and rightfully so), we actually found the opposite within the single population: “post-traumatic growth.” Or what we like to call “The Grown-Up Glow Up.” Because that’s exactly what happened. Men and women of all ages matured more, improved their health and reset their sexual, romantic and life priorities. Talk about some good news!

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To put it simply, singles are coming out of this pandemic better versions of themselves. Whether it was all that extra time alone, or just a general desire to get off the couch, they made the most of 2021. And it paid off. 72% got better at prioritizing important things in their lives, and 66% got better at caring for their mental health. More than 50% also made improvements when it came to their physical health, building stronger family relationships, unplugging from social media and increasing their self-confidence. It’s safe to assume singles are more eligible than ever.