Overview
- Total marriages rose 8.1% year over year to 240,300, the third consecutive annual increase and a return to near 2019 levels.
- The average age at first marriage reached 33.9 for men and 31.6 for women.
- Marriages with older wives accounted for 20.2% of unions, surpassing one in five for the first time.
- Multicultural marriages slipped 0.3% to about 21,000, or 8.6% of all weddings, with Vietnamese women the largest group of foreign wives and U.S. nationals the largest group of foreign husbands.
- Divorces fell to 88,000, extending a multi-year decline.