2/8 Marriage Gardens Top 10 Extreme

The Top 10 Extreme Marriage Gardens are in:

Houston suburbs, Fort Bend County Northwest (TX)
Provo-Orem Utah County East (UT)
Provo-Orem Utah County West (UT)
Dallas suburbs, Celina-Prosper (TX)
NYC suburbs, Western Central Connecticut (CT)
Jacksonville suburbs, St Johns County Northwest (FL)
Lakewood (NJ)
NYC suburbs, Bergen County (NJ)
Dallas-Fort Worth suburbs, Flower Mound-Highland Village (TX)
Nashville suburbs, Thompson Station-Fairview (TN)

A marriage garden, is in those PUMAs (Public Use Microdata Areas) in which which the share of householders aged 15 to 64 who are married is at least 61%, representing the highest-observed marriage shares nationally.

The list below ranks the ten PUMAs with the highest shares of married householders aged 15–64.

Across these areas, the married share of householders ranges from 73.9 percent to 78.6 percent. This implies that around three in four householders aged 15–64 in these PUMAs are married, roughly the inverse of the pattern observed in the nation’s largest marriage deserts.

America’s most extreme marriage garden (with the highest rates of marriage) is in the Houston suburbs of Fort Bend County (Northwest) TX.

Of the 40,365 householders aged 15-64, the share who are married is 78.5%.

America’s second most extreme marriage garden (with the highest rates of marriage) is in Utah County East of Orem and Provo.

Of the 39,101 householders aged 15-64, the share who are married is 78.1%.

America’s third most extreme marriage garden (with the highest rates of marriage) is in Utah County West of Orem and Provo.

Of the 39,127 householders aged 15-64, the share who are married is 77.3%.

America’s fourth most extreme marriage garden (with the highest rates of marriage) is in the suburbs of Dallas, Collin County—Celina and Prosper—TX.

Of the 27,311 householders aged 15-64, the share who are married is 75.9%.

America’s fifth most extreme marriage garden (with the highest rates of marriage) is in the commuter suburbs of New York in western central Connecticut.

Of the 25,670 householders aged 15-64, the share who are married is 75.8%.

America’s sixth most extreme marriage garden (with the highest rates of marriage) is in the Jacksonville suburbs of St. John’s County, FL.

Of the 41,870 householders aged 15-64, the share who are married is 74.7%.

America’s seventh most extreme marriage garden (with the highest rates of marriage) is in Lakewood, NJ.

Of the 23,781 householders aged 15-64, the share who are married is 74.9%.

America’s eighth most extreme marriage garden (with the highest rates of marriage) is in the NYC commuter suburbs of Bergen County, NJ.

Of the 25,395 householders aged 15-64, the share who are married is 74.9%.

America’s eighth most extreme marriage garden (with the highest rates of marriage) is in the Dallas-Fort Worth suburbs of Flower Mound and Highland Village, NJ.

Of the 41,870 householders aged 15-64, the share who are married is 74.7%.