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When D.C. was ranked one of the best cities for singles, DCist wondered how that could be when we’re all still alone. Now we have an answer: According to an analysis of Facebook relationship statuses, Washington is one of the worst cities to couple up and brag about it on social media.

“Many have tried using U.S. census data to rank cities based on each one’s singles population,” the Wall Street Journal reports. “But Facebook, with 201 million users in the U.S. and Canada, has something the Census Bureau doesn’t: Real-time relationship statuses for about half of Americans. Over a one-month period, Facebook ranked major U.S. cities according to the percentage of singles that went from ‘Single’ to ‘In a relationship.'”

As a graph from Facebook shows, D.C. has a high percentage of singles but a low relationship formation rate.

Via Facebook.

Out of 50 cities, D.C. was at the bottom with San Francisco. We were 12th in the “Percentage of singles” category and 29th when comparing the number of single women to single men. From the WSJ:

Overall, Facebook found that big, cosmopolitan cities with highly educated populations—places like New York City, Washington, D.C., and Miami—tend to have the highest percentages of single people. Those cities also tended to have the lowest couples rates.

I guess we have to move to Colorado Springs or El Paso.