It's
not just that some places have more singles than others. If you're a
single man or a single woman the odds of meeting that special someone
vary dramatically across the country.
By far, the best places for
single men are the large cities and metro areas of the East Coast and
Midwest. The extreme is greater New York, where single women outnumber
single men by more than 210,000. In the Philadelphia area and greater
Washington, D.C., single women outnumber single men by 50,000.
But women do have an
advantage in the American West and Southwest. In greater Los Angeles,
for example, there are 90,000 more single men than women. In Phoenix
and the San Francisco Bay Area, single men outnumber single women by
roughly 65,000.