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Whilst perusing the fine content on display at our sister blog in New York over the weekend, this editor couldn’t help but notice this post, boasting about The City That Never Sleeps’ booming population of people who aren’t sporting wedding bands:

It seems the Big Apple is actually the United States’ top city for unmarried women. WNYC looked at census data and spells it out: “34.8 percent of New York women 15 and over were never married. At the other end of the never married women spectrum was Wyoming, where only 20.7 percent of women have never married. Within New York City those statistics are higher than the state-wide. Never-married women make up 41.7 percent of the population, up from 38.7 percent in 2006. For men, the figures are even more dramatic: 46.7 percent have never been married, up from 43.4 percent in 2006.” Singletons, UNITE!

Whoa, whoa, whoa — hold the phone there. According to said data pulled by WNYC — from the Census Bureau’s annual American Community Survey — there’s a much higher proportion of singletons in the District than there is up in Gotham. According to the 2010 ACS, a whopping 58.9 percent of D.C. men and 55.8 percent of D.C. women have never been married. The District’s figures, just like in New York, are trending upward: a 1.6 percent increase for fellers, a 1.3 percent increase for ladies.

So, what’s this say about us? I don’t know, really. (Perhaps it has something to do with our low “manliness” quotient?) But it certainly feels good to say, with confidence, that the proportion of unmarried people is sooooo much better in the District of Columbia.