Single in Your 20s: For the in-between: after someone, before someone, or happily neither. What being single in your twenties is actually like.

By the numbers

• Half

  of single U.S. adults are not looking for a relationship or dates right now.

  Pew Research Center, 2020. U.S. adults, 2019 survey.

• 1 in 3

  unmarried adults ages 22 to 35 are actively dating.

  Wheatley Institute and Institute for Family Studies, 2026. 5,275 unmarried U.S. adults ages 22 to 35.

• 86%

  of unmarried adults ages 22 to 35 expect to marry someday.

  Wheatley Institute and Institute for Family Studies, 2026. 5,275 unmarried U.S. adults ages 22 to 35.

• 53%

  of adults ages 18 to 29 have ever used a dating site or app.

  Pew Research Center, 2023. 6,034 U.S. adults, July 2022.