What share of people meet your standards?
Set what you want in a partner. The answer is counted from Census Bureau and CDC surveys of real Americans.
Of 37 million American men aged 25 to 40
meet all 4 of your standards. About 387,000 people, or 1 in 95.
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Each dot is 0.1% of men aged 25 to 40. The blue ones match.
What each standard costs you
- Earns $100k or morekeeps 14%
- 6′0″ or tallerkeeps 20%
- Not marriedkeeps 36%
- Not obesekeeps 72%
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37 million men
How the pool shrinks
The example the calculator opens with, one standard at a time. Each bar is the number of American men still in the pool.
387,000 left
- 37M
Men aged 25 to 40
- 21M
Not married
- 3.7M
6′0″ or taller
- 536k
Earns $100k or more
- 387k
Not obese
The numbers behind it
16%
of American men are 6′0″ or taller. This is height measured by an examiner, not the height people give on a dating profile.
23%
of men had a personal income of $100,000 or more in 2024. For women the figure is 12%.
35%
of adult men have never married. Add the divorced, separated and widowed and 47% are not married now.
38%
of men aged 25 and over hold a bachelor’s degree or more. Among women it is 41%.
61%
of men have a BMI under 30. Among women it is 59%.
56%
of women aged 25 to 35 are not married.
Questions people ask about the number
How it is counted, and what it can and cannot tell you.
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