Percentage of U.S. families with children 2018, by state

This graph shows the percentage of husband-wife households with own children under 18 years, living in the household, in the U.S. in 2018, by state. In 2018, about 60.96 percent of Californian husband-wife households had children under the age of 18 living within the household.

Percentage of husband-wife households with own children under 18 years in the U.S. in 2018, by state

Characteristic	Percentage of husband-wife households
Utah	68.53%
Texas	62.69%
Alaska	61.98%
Kansas	61.34%
California	60.96%
Idaho	60.72%
Nebraska	60.16%
Colorado	59.3%
North Dakota	59.17%
Hawaii	58.53%
Virginia	58.46%
Oklahoma	58.45%
Maryland	58.36%
Minnesota	58.29%
Illinois	57.4%
Arizona	57.38%
Iowa	57.14%
United States	56.4%
New Jersey	56.19%
South Dakota	56.07%
Indiana	55.95%
Georgia	55.9%
New York	55.73%
Nevada	55.53%
North Carolina	55.23%
Washington	55.16%
Louisiana	55.07%
Kentucky	55.07%
Missouri	55.03%
New Mexico	54.47%
District of Columbia	54.17%
Massachusetts	54.05%
Wisconsin	54%
Mississippi	53.97%
Arkansas	53.76%
Wyoming	53.64%
Oregon	53.56%
Connecticut	53.23%
Pennsylvania	52.29%
Montana	52.02%
Michigan	52%
Tennessee	51.52%
South Carolina	51.45%
Florida	51.18%
Ohio	50.98%
West Virginia	50.94%
Alabama	50.65%
Maine	50.63%
Vermont	50.27%
New Hampshire	49.64%
Delaware	48.87%
Rhode Island	46.46%

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Release date

September 2019

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United States

Survey time period

2018

Supplementary notes

According to the definition by the U.S. Census Bureau a household "includes all of the people who occupy a housing unit. One person in each household is designated as the “householder.” In most cases, this is the person, or one of the people, in whose name the home is owned, being bought, or rented."

The Census defines a married couple household as a husband and a wife.

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