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What a fascinating map. I'm left wondering if it is really from 2007 or 1857 -- it seems like the "gold rush" out west is still attracting young males seeking their fortune.
Obviously this is related to the industries found in these places, not all of it creative. It would be interesting to separate out clerical workers and agricultural workers, as well as members of the military and gays.
Obviously this is related to the industries found in these places, not all of it creative. It would be interesting to separate out clerical workers and agricultural workers, as well as members of the military and gays.
My sense is there is a gender component as well. My wife who's from the Detroit area once told me that the young men leave to pursue opportunity while the young women stay home to be close to family. Also certain places specialize in certain kinds of occupations. My recent research is looking into the geography of occupations and the geography of personality types. Women and men have different occupational profiles to some degree with women over-represented in nuturing occupations which are more local and tied to place. This deserves more study for sure.
As per my earlier comment, I think there are some lessons and questions from historically comparable situations. We've seen large numbers of single males flock to California before. The question now, as in past migrations is how many of them stay long term.
For example, is California simply a "right of passage" for many creative class males. They go for a few years, gain experience, make money and return home ideally with a fortune, and perhaps with a sharp eye toward marriage and family. Or, do the young males stay and become older single males. I think the gold rush lesson would be most go home or move on, but that perhaps a fresh crop is always replacing them.
If this map or statistics existed for each decade of the 20th century as well, that might be really interesting information.
Kind of fun in relation to Wendy's and Richard's comments above - we also have this gender effect in Sweden - but working in the opposite direction. Young women migrate to Stockholm, Gothenburg and Malmo, leaving the young men behind at home. In the northen parts of Sweden they now have "match-making trips" - sending in young women from Russia by bus to the "starving" Swedish men :-), hoping to to get some new families in the sparsly populated areas. While in the cities there are tons of Brigit Jones...
Where's the irony in that? Having lived in the midwest as well as California, the "Hot California babes" are not just a myth. If they're worth it, what's wrong with a little competition?
I met my wife when she was living in a suburb of Detroit. I was shocked - and I mean shocked - at the differences between men and women. Not just physical either - in terms of energy and intelligence. She had a simple explanation which I've shared here before. The men go off to find opportunity. A greater share of women stay home for family reasons.
Charlotta - I just read your comments. This is really interesting. Can you elaborate on what you think might be driving the difference between Sweden and the US....?
Charlotta and Richard: Maybe we have this all wrong and Charlotta's observation for Sweden does fit 21st century USA. Maybe it's the women from California and Seattle going to New York, Chicago and Philadelphia that's creating the imbalance? Or, at least maybe that's part of the story we're missing. It may be a combination of West coast women heading east and men heading west.
Also, it could be that women are leaving hinterlands around Chicago, Philadelphia, etc. more than men and heading to the nearby hub city. This too, might be more like Sweden.
Hmmm - random thought. Is this trend reflected in the two hit HBO shows, "Sex and the City" and "Entourage"? I don't know much about the supposed origins of the women in "Sex and the City", (except that the Charlotte character is from blue-blood Connecticut), but it takes place at the hub of the #1 female surplus region (New York). Regardless, they all seem to be from East Coast-ish locations to begin with. Perhaps their frustrations are a reflection of the large single female surplus.
"Entourage", on the other hand, is explicitly about young men from Queens, NY migrating to Hollywood, the hub of the #1 male surplus region (LA), and I believe is based on Boston native's Mark Wahlberg's experience.
I agree that the west still holds a "Gold Rush" mentality for young men, and on top of the "Hot Babe" and other beach/surfer dude-oriented aspect of it all, you have the whole Silicon Valley Type-A nerd culture to draw young men from the East. I think it's also part of the West being the least rooted part of the nation. A young single male who wants to totally throw off his familial and social bonds for more cosmic pursuits would probably like the West better.
I'm not so sure what Texas holds for these young men, but it could be a combination of big oil in Houston, big funkiness in Austin, and just plain big money in Dallas. San Antonio seems to not joined this club yet.
I'm surprised the Southeast is such a female-surplus region, but I supposed their young men migrate West, too. Maybe it's the South's sometimes exessive "rootedness" (and honestly not all that different from other areas east of the Mississippi) that pushes the most ambitious young men to flee west (and perhaps not even Atlanta appeals to them). The exceptions seem to be Myrtle Beach, SC and inexplicably Hickory, NC.
And what accounts for the surplus single men in Southwest Florida and on Florida's East Coast between Jacksonville and Miami? Real estate and developer folks? Does Myrtle Beach fall in that category?
I'm also reminded of my cousin sister and my best friend, who are married to each other. My cousin ideally would want to live in Manhattan. My best friend would ideally want to live in a dry, cool western location (he loved Flagstaff, AZ, for example). Is there maybe something about females that prefers humidity? When my wife and I have traveled to San Diego, Arizona, or Vegas, I've loved the climate, and while she loved it in an abstract sense, she somehow always got sick.
Also, I've often heard of men on either coast, but probably particularly the West Coast, looking back east, especially the midwest, to settle down with a nice girl-next-door and start a family. Especially if that's where they came from.
As a young male with a degree in computer science it seems like a clear cut case of where the technology and ultimately the highest monetary gain exists. California has long been the hub for software/hardware revolutions, Seattle has grown to be a huge industry standard, not just because of Microsoft, but because of the many Aeronautical/mechanical manufacturing/engineering opportunities. The same is true of central Arizona and of Austin, Houston and Dallas. All of those area's have seen enormous growth in both electrical engineering and software related fields in the last 10 to 15 years.
as a 32 year old single male Manhattanite, I can explain NY pretty easily. the fashion, PR, design, advertising and publishing industries are all centered here and are all female-dominated...especially at the entry level.
as for east coast women being pickier...not really...the massive female surplus in NY..has definitely changed the dating paradigm compared to other places I've lived. men get away with far more here due to their superior market power (in terms fo shortage). (it's also the one place where as a male attorney you can routinely date women making far more than you.)
I think the high concentration of single males out West has a lot to do with immigrant laborers from Latin America and Asia (tech workers), who are predominantly male.
I'm a single male who moved to San Francisco half a year ago. Coming from Chicago, I can speak with personal conviction to the effects of this graph.
When I was in Chicago, I felt like a stud. It was never long for me between hookups and dates. Women weren't necessarily throwing themselves at me, but at the same time, the action I got made me feel desirable, attractive, and successful.
Fast forward half a year, where I haven't gotten laid a single time. I moved out here for the new tech boom, jumping head-first into the gold-rush mentality that's driving so many other young single men out here as well.
When I'm hanging out with friends, often times in a large room with few if any women, we routinely turn to the topic of how the dating scene sucks. Most of my guy friends are single, and some haven't had action in months or years.
The pool of women, eligible or otherwise, are among the least hot I've seen in any city this size. And it doesn't seem to matter, because they still get treated like royalty. One of my female friends who's also new to the city says that she's never received so much attention from men in her life. Great news if you're a chick, no so much if you're a dude.
Perhaps this explains why most online dating sites got started in Silicon Valley.
Maybe it's more insidious, Lots of the female "excess" is in cities with lots of black people. Since a black man has a better (statistically) chance of going to jail than to college, it leaves lots of excess female population.
LA and the Southwest gets many first wave(young male and likely illegal) immigrants.
I'm not surprised socal is skewed more male, there are a lot of military bases there. I'm also not surprised to see all the places I've ever lived are total sausage fests. I'm moving to be with the ladies.
I'm a Man living in Russia and I'm originally from California.
So basically I've gone from dating hell to pure heaven as far as women are concerned.
Although there aren't any great graphs to show like this I can tell you that Russia probably has the greatest mismatch of numerically greater numbers of Women to Men in the world. And we are not just talking ordinary women here. We are talking about some of the best women if not THE BEST in the world.
Does anyone have a similar map for Canada (or at least Ontario)?
It would be curious to see if the imbalance is opposite (since the Toronto area is where most new immigrants go and most new immigrants tend to be men looking for opportunities).
Are you guys so focused on your bit of the word to miss the largest migration of people in American history? Clearly, larger numbers of men are willing to walk from their Mexican villages and towns to the cities of the American southwest. I wonder if this alone explains the female shortage in these cities? You see exactly the same pattern on a neighbourhood level in cities like Houston, areas with many first generation hispanic immigrants have many more men than women. I always wonder how many of these guys can still pull off having multiple families that don't know about each other.
Here on the west coast of Florida, Tampa Bay there are a lot of very good looking females,
unfortunately most have not seen their 23rd
birthday yet so the pickins are small.
Having lived in Southern California, Northern California, Washington State and now North Carolina in the last decade I can offer a good reason for all of this:
The large amount of males in Northern California is caused by tech jobs, which are for better or worse, occupied by men. Like someone mentioned earlier, dating SUCKS in the bay area.
The large amount of males in southern california comes from a few different reasons. The large immigration rate, a large, large amount of military, and men wanting to get into Hollywood Party Scene, acting or the famous beaches.
As someone mentioned earlier, NY draws tons of women for creative things, such as design, modeling, theatre and some acting.
Seattle has some similar issues as the bay area of california, as it has quite a few tech jobs (Such as microsoft), as we as labor jobs like Boeing, and UPS.
Since moving out to NC, I get hit on all the time.. and its freaking AWESOME. Maybe Ill check out the North East eh?
The graph is quite misleading since it records absolute excess single people, not the excess single people relative to the total local population.
185 000 extra single women in New York-Newark isn't that big a deal because it's taken from a population of 20 million, i.e., the excess is less than 1% of the population.
All this graph does is to pick out centres of high population. (Notice that the big dots are in California and the North-East Atlantic coast.)
Very interesting map! My experience comes from living in Finland, Sweden and the UK before moving to CA. I haven't lived elsewhere in the US but I have to say that it is so much easier to get a date and get more attention from females here. Some say that it is because of accent, maybe so, American women do seem to be fond of them. Other than that, I just know that dating is way easier here!
Love can sweep you off your feet and carry you along in a way you've never known before. But the ride always ends, and you end up feeling lonely and bitter. Wait. It's not love I'm describing. I'm thinking of a monorail.
As a single mid-20s female in Washington, DC, I am finally learning why me and my single female friends, all of whom are well-educated (holders of MAs), attractive, and normal are still single. Makes me even more upset that my plan to move to NYC to meet a guy is probably not the best one anymore...
I can understand the male patterns fairly well. They are all tech-heavy regions, and engineering as a profession is 70-80% male. Organizations may report a more balanced ratio, but from my experience female engineers migrate to marketing and project management faster than male engineers. Male engineers are more interested in the craft, while female engineers see the profession as a vehicle for personal enrichment and improvement, but don't really have their heart in it.
As far as Florida: central Florida is developing into a digital media content hub. Not exactly tech, but you do need to be creative and know how to use the computer tools. This is mitigated by Orlando's female bent; perhaps my explanation is wrong for central Florida.
However, the semiconductor belt running up central Texas and the chemical operations in Houston, as well as the biotech belt west of Boston seem to confirm this. And the West Coast...
For a female explanation, I think that the high rates of female enrollment in universities and the high rates of female employment in university administration would give any education-heavy city a female bias. Case in point: Berkeley, CA.
At least in Boston, it's all about the ELDERLY single women. Makes sense given that life expectancy in massachusetts is 82 for females and 76 for males born in 2005.
In the city proper there are 22,000 more women than men (4% of total 589,000) but here's the rough breakdown:
Under 20: no difference
20 to 40: 3,500 more females
40 to 60: 3,500 more females
Over 60: 15,000 more females
www.idcide.com/citydata/ma/boston.htm
And if you look at the whole state (Massachusetts), there are actually more single men than women between 20-40 years of age. All states/cities are listed: http://www.idcide.com/citydata/ma/index.htm
I would encourage some enterprising person at National Geographic to overlay the following statistics onto this map and see how neatly the circles correlate:
1) Race
2) Sexual Orientation
3) Communities of Illegal Aliens
I think you will quickly find that there is a striking correlation.
There are more single women in New Orleans, Miami, Chicago, Detroit, East St. Louis, Washington DC, Baltimore, Philadelphia, New York and Boston because there are high concentrations of African Americans in these locations (overlay single mothers to see how sad it must be to live in one of these fatherless communities.)
There are more single men in Houston, Austin, Dallas, Denver, Phoenix and San Diego because there are high concentrations of illegal aliens in these communities. (Men who come across to support their families, but don't bring their significant others.)
San Francisco, Seattle? Well ... you can figure out pretty easily why there are so many single men there. They haven't been allowed to marry.
Women in the DC area seem jaded. There are no smiles and they seem unapproachable. Not to mention no sense of humor.
Cali girls on the other hand are sooooo easy to talk to. My 2 cents.
This singles map shows I have no excuses for being single. I live just outside of Chicago and it looks like the windy city is a haven for lots of single women. I guess I'm kind of picky and I'm not really looking to meet anyone right now (even at 35 yrs old).
I have been to the beach cities in Los Angeles, CA., Wichita, Ks. and New York. In the beach cities in California, I would get hot girls coming up to me giving me their phone numbers. It was easy to meet women there. There might be more men, but its easy to get women there. Wichita should have a big blue circle there cause clubs will have about 5 guys to every girl. The girls here are proud of themselves no matter how many kids they have or fat they are. Most, like Nancy Belden just love you and then leave you. They are pathetic out here. In New York, just out and about there would be lots of women all over. Tulsa, Oklahoma had lots of girls there as well.
First of all, unlike cattle, black people don't necessarily only date each other. Maybe this isn't true for other groups, which could be why there are more black women who are still single...
Second, there may be more women on the East coast than men, but the men in the Northeast seem much more interesting, assertive, fun than men on the West coast, and definitely moreso than men in the South.
I'd considered moving to Portland, but its lack of racial diversity worried me. What's the point of having more men than women if none of those men will even look at a black woman? Which is worse - not finding anyone to date because there aren't enough single men, or being surrounded by single men to whom you are invisible?
Agreed. I'm a heterosexual male, slowly moving from young adult into middle age. I've lived across the country and outside of it, and I find that I bring my problems with "getting a date" with me wherever I go. Some of my past homes have red dots, some have blue. Chicago is the only town I've ever been in where I felt like I was getting "a fair shake" instead of having to constantly BUST MY BUTT just to MEET viable potential partners. In New York, you can SEE a lot of attractive women on the streets, but then you try to get to know them and there's the whole big-city aloof stand-offish thing which I haven't ever learned to disarm. "Why is a stranger talking to me? Is he a serial killer? Does he murder people with an axe?" And in Chicago the VAST majority of young adult hetero females are BLUTO GIANT WHALES ... and therefore unattractive to me. Silly me, I have a normal human hetero male sex drive. Dangit, maybe my problem is, that I want to incorporate a normal human hetero male sex drive into the abnormal obese female North American context ...
I agree with the others; without the demographics to drill down, the aggregate data is virtually meaningless.
Ex: Fine, there are more single women total in the Boston-DC "corridor of death" than elsewhere. -But what are the per-capita %s on the 22-29, 105-130lb, no kids, white, latin, asian, >25% bodyfat, hotties?
-THOSE would truly be useful numbers! :)
-That, and NG should add a sidebar to the article on why every 1/2 ugly girl in the NYC area with a pair of butt-crack jeans and a crappy "Strokes" t-shirt thinks she's a Brazilian Supermodel and has the attitude problems to match.
-Ahh, the mysteries of life...
As a single male in LA (and in my early 40s), I can say this does not feel like a city where guys outnumber the women. What that big blue dot is not showing is the high number of gay men here that make it quite nice for a straight guy- as far as dating women goes.
As much as NYC, the (white) professional women in the white collar/entertainment world are constantly bemoaning the "lack of guys." Take that however you want, but the single women in this city are not jumpng for joy at all the guys they have to date. Just ask them.
I'm a single 40 year old woman(still looking hot) ha! and moving to San Franciso City...Will I actually meet lots of available single men to date???
That will be awsome because Honolulu Hawaii sucks big time for women. Beautiful women inside and out go litterally years without a date. I'm so ready for romance...I want to live in Sasulito...Hmmmm?? Well at least I'll be working in the city. I thought all the men in San Franciso were Gay?? I hope I'm wrong.
Hope you are wrong!
I live in The gay city ( Miami ) So I am about to move either to Chicago or to San Francisco....I am afraid that all this single guys in SF are gays and I am afraid that I'll stay single forever in Chicago!!
heeeeeeeeelp!!
I've lived in Seattle several years. I concur the dating scene here is not favorable for a single male. There are single women but seems a majority are overweight, which is the primary factor behind their single-ness.
Some anecdotal evidence that east coast dating is better for men. A male friend relocated to NYC recently and landed a GF within a month. He had no luck in the couple years I knew him in Seattle, and he was trying harder than most to land a girl. He said the NYC dating scene was much better and women more friendly and sincere.
Another male friend relocated to Chicago for work a few years ago. He's a short guy - probably 5'4" - and of course dating is more difficult for shorter guys. He had no luck in Seattle. He went to Chicago and now he's engaged. It took him some time there to land this girl, but before he met her he was telling me the opportunities in Chicago were much more plentiful.
A FEmale friend relocated from NYC said the dating scene here was way better. First time I met her there were 3 single guys including me buzzing around her trying to get a word in, trying to get her attention. Single and THIN, we just don't see that very often here.
"For a female explanation, I think that the high rates of female enrollment in universities and the high rates of female employment in university administration would give any education-heavy city a female bias. Case in point: Berkeley, CA."
Well, if the males are so mobile why don't the Silicon Valley males hie themselves to Berkeley then? The Berkeley gals only get as far as San Francisco before encountering the mounds of gay males and turning back.
This explains the phenomenon in SF where the women think they're hotter than they are, which is the first thing my out of town friends (male and female) say upon spending time in SF. As we say here, the women think they're 2 points (on a scale of 1-10) hotter than they are. My LA friends best describe it, The City of Sixes.
I live in Dallas and I can say that this map tells me what I have believed to be true for quite a while. I am an attractive successful guy who spent $1500 on a membership to an elite dating service. Half the women I met were educated afro-american professionals which argees with an earlier posting. Of the other mainly Caucasian half I would consider 1 out of 5 attractive.
A lot of guys I know agree that Dallas is a bad city to meet people. The girls I have luck with are usually from out of town and have not yet picked up on the local culture. I had one friend tell me that he dates out of town girls becuase "Dallas girls are hard". I had another friend tell me he married a foriegn girl becuase local girls are "all about money".
The local girls typically wear expensive clothes, have big egos, go out in groups that don't like being approached, and don't try to meet anyone becuase they expect to be setup at some point.
I'm a caucasian, 32, MA holding Canadian female in Australia and trying to decide between Canada and the US (Minn.) In Canada and Australia we are constantly hearing about a shortage of men (especially in major centres). I am thinking maybe I shouldn't head to one.
I can (as a girl) relate to a few other comments on here. It's one thing to meet a single guy, its another thing if he is not gay, house-trained and able to carry a conversation and attractive. But then I have been in Aus. for a few years, here they prefer to go out with their rugby mates and expect to make you a booty call (with the absolute worst sex I have ever had in my life - not from one guy - almost ALL of them.) Definitely time to leave, I sound jaded. I miss Canadian and American men.
Winnipeg and Minneapolis are looking better all the time.
The map reflects Latino male workers, may of whom are male and come to LA. The Western states have the male surplus. If they broke the map out by race all the extra men would be Hispanic (mostly Mexican).
A San Francisco Bay Area 10 is an LA 5, which is odd cause there are more male gays then lesbians there. Also SF women do not attempt to look good in any way. Call it Metrosexual for females, the "dyke-ish" wanna be look. There are less obese people in sf then other areas though.
Given the fact that this map indicates race, spoken language (Spanish) and social/economic class populations and religion (Catholic or Christian-Protestant) along with gender, and that people frequently date others of the same race and/ or primary language spoken (English or Spanish) and/or economic class and/or religion, it really has nothing to do with the reality of ease or difficulty of dating. In other words there are a s-itload of sub groups other then just men and women.
Here's a link to an interactive map along the same lines:
Where do the top 40 cities rank for singles based on Nightlife, Career, Affordability and Online Dating Activity? See the results of the Forbes survey on Google Maps.
The gender gap in southern California comes from just a difference in perception. All these girls they asked think they have a boyfriend, but the guys still consider themselves single. Girls in LA do what girls do, look for a mate, but guys in LA are looking to hook up with as many other hot girls as possible.
I've been dating for years on various sites. It takes a long time to find someone special. I never thought I would find the woman of my dreams. Who would have ever thought it would have been on richmingle.com site. She is not only beautiful on the outside but beautiful on the inside as well. I don't remember being able to laugh uncontrollably with anyone like this.It has been a true pleasure meeting her. We have been dating for almost three months now and I look forward to the marriage.
Northern CA is the best place in the country for a single woman to go. I have tons of freinds most of them normal hard working business owners or professionals that resort to dating less attractive or older women. They think this is normal but it isn't so normal for this East Coast guy.
Ladies come out here there are tons of single wealthy guys waiting to sweep you off your feet.
I hate the way this sounds, but I'd really appreciate seeing these statistics broken out by... well... um... by race. My suspicion is that black people are the deciding "tiebreakers" in these statistics, but until I see some see real numbers I'll never know for sure.
I'm perfectly willing to do some real-deal research. If anyone has some smart hook-ups on where to look then I'd sure appreciate them.
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What a fascinating map. I'm left wondering if it is really from 2007 or 1857 -- it seems like the "gold rush" out west is still attracting young males seeking their fortune.
Posted by: Wendy | April 03, 2007 at 03:25 PM
Obviously this is related to the industries found in these places, not all of it creative. It would be interesting to separate out clerical workers and agricultural workers, as well as members of the military and gays.
Posted by: Michael Bindner | April 03, 2007 at 04:26 PM
Obviously this is related to the industries found in these places, not all of it creative. It would be interesting to separate out clerical workers and agricultural workers, as well as members of the military and gays.
Posted by: Michael Bindner | April 03, 2007 at 04:27 PM
My sense is there is a gender component as well. My wife who's from the Detroit area once told me that the young men leave to pursue opportunity while the young women stay home to be close to family. Also certain places specialize in certain kinds of occupations. My recent research is looking into the geography of occupations and the geography of personality types. Women and men have different occupational profiles to some degree with women over-represented in nuturing occupations which are more local and tied to place. This deserves more study for sure.
Posted by: Richard | April 03, 2007 at 11:53 PM
As per my earlier comment, I think there are some lessons and questions from historically comparable situations. We've seen large numbers of single males flock to California before. The question now, as in past migrations is how many of them stay long term.
For example, is California simply a "right of passage" for many creative class males. They go for a few years, gain experience, make money and return home ideally with a fortune, and perhaps with a sharp eye toward marriage and family. Or, do the young males stay and become older single males. I think the gold rush lesson would be most go home or move on, but that perhaps a fresh crop is always replacing them.
If this map or statistics existed for each decade of the 20th century as well, that might be really interesting information.
Posted by: Wendy | April 04, 2007 at 01:12 AM
Kind of fun in relation to Wendy's and Richard's comments above - we also have this gender effect in Sweden - but working in the opposite direction. Young women migrate to Stockholm, Gothenburg and Malmo, leaving the young men behind at home. In the northen parts of Sweden they now have "match-making trips" - sending in young women from Russia by bus to the "starving" Swedish men :-), hoping to to get some new families in the sparsly populated areas. While in the cities there are tons of Brigit Jones...
Posted by: Charlotta | April 04, 2007 at 04:22 AM
What's really ironic is that many young men cite the availability of "hot California babes" as a reason to try living in LA or San Diego for a while.
Looks like their chances of getting a date might be better in Chicago or Philadelphia.
Posted by: Wendy | April 04, 2007 at 11:06 AM
Where's the irony in that? Having lived in the midwest as well as California, the "Hot California babes" are not just a myth. If they're worth it, what's wrong with a little competition?
Posted by: pollster | April 04, 2007 at 11:48 AM
I met my wife when she was living in a suburb of Detroit. I was shocked - and I mean shocked - at the differences between men and women. Not just physical either - in terms of energy and intelligence. She had a simple explanation which I've shared here before. The men go off to find opportunity. A greater share of women stay home for family reasons.
Posted by: Richard | April 04, 2007 at 03:46 PM
Charlotta - I just read your comments. This is really interesting. Can you elaborate on what you think might be driving the difference between Sweden and the US....?
Posted by: Richard | April 04, 2007 at 03:47 PM
Charlotta and Richard: Maybe we have this all wrong and Charlotta's observation for Sweden does fit 21st century USA. Maybe it's the women from California and Seattle going to New York, Chicago and Philadelphia that's creating the imbalance? Or, at least maybe that's part of the story we're missing. It may be a combination of West coast women heading east and men heading west.
Also, it could be that women are leaving hinterlands around Chicago, Philadelphia, etc. more than men and heading to the nearby hub city. This too, might be more like Sweden.
Posted by: Wendy | April 04, 2007 at 11:02 PM
Hmmm - random thought. Is this trend reflected in the two hit HBO shows, "Sex and the City" and "Entourage"? I don't know much about the supposed origins of the women in "Sex and the City", (except that the Charlotte character is from blue-blood Connecticut), but it takes place at the hub of the #1 female surplus region (New York). Regardless, they all seem to be from East Coast-ish locations to begin with. Perhaps their frustrations are a reflection of the large single female surplus.
"Entourage", on the other hand, is explicitly about young men from Queens, NY migrating to Hollywood, the hub of the #1 male surplus region (LA), and I believe is based on Boston native's Mark Wahlberg's experience.
I agree that the west still holds a "Gold Rush" mentality for young men, and on top of the "Hot Babe" and other beach/surfer dude-oriented aspect of it all, you have the whole Silicon Valley Type-A nerd culture to draw young men from the East. I think it's also part of the West being the least rooted part of the nation. A young single male who wants to totally throw off his familial and social bonds for more cosmic pursuits would probably like the West better.
I'm not so sure what Texas holds for these young men, but it could be a combination of big oil in Houston, big funkiness in Austin, and just plain big money in Dallas. San Antonio seems to not joined this club yet.
I'm surprised the Southeast is such a female-surplus region, but I supposed their young men migrate West, too. Maybe it's the South's sometimes exessive "rootedness" (and honestly not all that different from other areas east of the Mississippi) that pushes the most ambitious young men to flee west (and perhaps not even Atlanta appeals to them). The exceptions seem to be Myrtle Beach, SC and inexplicably Hickory, NC.
And what accounts for the surplus single men in Southwest Florida and on Florida's East Coast between Jacksonville and Miami? Real estate and developer folks? Does Myrtle Beach fall in that category?
I'm also reminded of my cousin sister and my best friend, who are married to each other. My cousin ideally would want to live in Manhattan. My best friend would ideally want to live in a dry, cool western location (he loved Flagstaff, AZ, for example). Is there maybe something about females that prefers humidity? When my wife and I have traveled to San Diego, Arizona, or Vegas, I've loved the climate, and while she loved it in an abstract sense, she somehow always got sick.
Also, I've often heard of men on either coast, but probably particularly the West Coast, looking back east, especially the midwest, to settle down with a nice girl-next-door and start a family. Especially if that's where they came from.
Posted by: MPS | April 05, 2007 at 10:43 AM
As a young male with a degree in computer science it seems like a clear cut case of where the technology and ultimately the highest monetary gain exists. California has long been the hub for software/hardware revolutions, Seattle has grown to be a huge industry standard, not just because of Microsoft, but because of the many Aeronautical/mechanical manufacturing/engineering opportunities. The same is true of central Arizona and of Austin, Houston and Dallas. All of those area's have seen enormous growth in both electrical engineering and software related fields in the last 10 to 15 years.
Posted by: DMC | April 10, 2007 at 12:10 PM
I think the women are more picky on the east coast, and the men are more picky on the west coast...
Posted by: Hot Babe Magnet | April 10, 2007 at 03:40 PM
as a 32 year old single male Manhattanite, I can explain NY pretty easily. the fashion, PR, design, advertising and publishing industries are all centered here and are all female-dominated...especially at the entry level.
as for east coast women being pickier...not really...the massive female surplus in NY..has definitely changed the dating paradigm compared to other places I've lived. men get away with far more here due to their superior market power (in terms fo shortage). (it's also the one place where as a male attorney you can routinely date women making far more than you.)
Posted by: Nathan | April 10, 2007 at 05:44 PM
would be interesting to see the straight/gay filter on top of this.
found this on feedmashr.com
Posted by: chris | April 10, 2007 at 06:14 PM
I think the high concentration of single males out West has a lot to do with immigrant laborers from Latin America and Asia (tech workers), who are predominantly male.
Posted by: JT | April 10, 2007 at 06:45 PM
I'm a single male who moved to San Francisco half a year ago. Coming from Chicago, I can speak with personal conviction to the effects of this graph.
When I was in Chicago, I felt like a stud. It was never long for me between hookups and dates. Women weren't necessarily throwing themselves at me, but at the same time, the action I got made me feel desirable, attractive, and successful.
Fast forward half a year, where I haven't gotten laid a single time. I moved out here for the new tech boom, jumping head-first into the gold-rush mentality that's driving so many other young single men out here as well.
When I'm hanging out with friends, often times in a large room with few if any women, we routinely turn to the topic of how the dating scene sucks. Most of my guy friends are single, and some haven't had action in months or years.
The pool of women, eligible or otherwise, are among the least hot I've seen in any city this size. And it doesn't seem to matter, because they still get treated like royalty. One of my female friends who's also new to the city says that she's never received so much attention from men in her life. Great news if you're a chick, no so much if you're a dude.
Perhaps this explains why most online dating sites got started in Silicon Valley.
Posted by: TheChrispy | April 11, 2007 at 12:28 AM
Maybe it's more insidious, Lots of the female "excess" is in cities with lots of black people. Since a black man has a better (statistically) chance of going to jail than to college, it leaves lots of excess female population.
LA and the Southwest gets many first wave(young male and likely illegal) immigrants.
Posted by: T | April 11, 2007 at 01:55 PM
How about an interactive one? www.datesnearby.net
Posted by: Shake | April 11, 2007 at 01:55 PM
Wonderful... again, I'm in a sausage fest situation again. Stupid Phoenix. I could have moved somewhere!
Posted by: Jason | April 11, 2007 at 01:56 PM
I'm not surprised socal is skewed more male, there are a lot of military bases there. I'm also not surprised to see all the places I've ever lived are total sausage fests. I'm moving to be with the ladies.
Posted by: Jayson Barclay | April 11, 2007 at 02:04 PM
The map is backward. I wish they all could be California girls? Dumbass.
Posted by: Cream of Sum Yung Guy | April 11, 2007 at 02:22 PM
i had no idea i was surrounded by so many desperately lonely women.
Posted by: gondaba | April 11, 2007 at 02:30 PM
The west looks like a giant sausage fest.
Posted by: Foreign Language Blog | April 11, 2007 at 03:14 PM
That does it. I'm so moving to NY. The heck with this sausage centric coast.
Posted by: PaulGuise | April 11, 2007 at 03:17 PM
No wonder they love me on the east coast... Im a fucken G-d
Posted by: allen | April 11, 2007 at 03:21 PM
Looks like I'm in a good place (Michigan)
Posted by: Nicholas | April 11, 2007 at 03:47 PM
Yeah, its a nice map, but it should really say if those singles are ugly or not. Maybe in the 2.0 map.
Posted by: optic82 | April 11, 2007 at 04:06 PM
The disparity in the west may have something to do with all the rich older men dating young attractive young women.
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Although there aren't any great graphs to show like this I can tell you that Russia probably has the greatest mismatch of numerically greater numbers of Women to Men in the world. And we are not just talking ordinary women here. We are talking about some of the best women if not THE BEST in the world.
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Posted by: Galactic Love | April 11, 2007 at 04:32 PM
Now, lets get the numbers on ATTRACTIVE single people =P
Posted by: scott | April 11, 2007 at 05:02 PM
This map really clears up a lot of things about living here in NYC :)
I always thought that it was the large numbers of gay men here that made it so easy to get a date.
like hailing a cab :)
Posted by: j. d. | April 11, 2007 at 05:13 PM
Does anyone have a similar map for Canada (or at least Ontario)?
It would be curious to see if the imbalance is opposite (since the Toronto area is where most new immigrants go and most new immigrants tend to be men looking for opportunities).
Posted by: Curious | April 11, 2007 at 05:23 PM
Are you guys so focused on your bit of the word to miss the largest migration of people in American history? Clearly, larger numbers of men are willing to walk from their Mexican villages and towns to the cities of the American southwest. I wonder if this alone explains the female shortage in these cities? You see exactly the same pattern on a neighbourhood level in cities like Houston, areas with many first generation hispanic immigrants have many more men than women. I always wonder how many of these guys can still pull off having multiple families that don't know about each other.
Posted by: Carlos | April 11, 2007 at 06:14 PM
Damnit! And I just moved to Los Angeles. I thought it was bad before.
Posted by: Angry Ken | April 11, 2007 at 06:57 PM
Here on the west coast of Florida, Tampa Bay there are a lot of very good looking females,
unfortunately most have not seen their 23rd
birthday yet so the pickins are small.
Posted by: Phil | April 11, 2007 at 07:43 PM
Having lived in Southern California, Northern California, Washington State and now North Carolina in the last decade I can offer a good reason for all of this:
The large amount of males in Northern California is caused by tech jobs, which are for better or worse, occupied by men. Like someone mentioned earlier, dating SUCKS in the bay area.
The large amount of males in southern california comes from a few different reasons. The large immigration rate, a large, large amount of military, and men wanting to get into Hollywood Party Scene, acting or the famous beaches.
As someone mentioned earlier, NY draws tons of women for creative things, such as design, modeling, theatre and some acting.
Seattle has some similar issues as the bay area of california, as it has quite a few tech jobs (Such as microsoft), as we as labor jobs like Boeing, and UPS.
Since moving out to NC, I get hit on all the time.. and its freaking AWESOME. Maybe Ill check out the North East eh?
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Posted by: canada Web hosting | April 11, 2007 at 11:43 PM
The graph is quite misleading since it records absolute excess single people, not the excess single people relative to the total local population.
185 000 extra single women in New York-Newark isn't that big a deal because it's taken from a population of 20 million, i.e., the excess is less than 1% of the population.
All this graph does is to pick out centres of high population. (Notice that the big dots are in California and the North-East Atlantic coast.)
Posted by: graphgeek | April 12, 2007 at 04:11 AM
Very interesting map! My experience comes from living in Finland, Sweden and the UK before moving to CA. I haven't lived elsewhere in the US but I have to say that it is so much easier to get a date and get more attention from females here. Some say that it is because of accent, maybe so, American women do seem to be fond of them. Other than that, I just know that dating is way easier here!
Posted by: Tom | April 12, 2007 at 11:23 AM
Hmm. As an single 30 year old in Florida, looks like maybe I should go take my chances with the 2,500 single farmers in Wyoming.
Posted by: sewdough | April 12, 2007 at 12:18 PM
Love can sweep you off your feet and carry you along in a way you've never known before. But the ride always ends, and you end up feeling lonely and bitter. Wait. It's not love I'm describing. I'm thinking of a monorail.
Posted by: Jayson barclay | April 12, 2007 at 04:36 PM
yeaaaah baltimore/DC...
Posted by: FrazerFraaaaze | April 12, 2007 at 05:00 PM
As a single mid-20s female in Washington, DC, I am finally learning why me and my single female friends, all of whom are well-educated (holders of MAs), attractive, and normal are still single. Makes me even more upset that my plan to move to NYC to meet a guy is probably not the best one anymore...
Posted by: rosynyc | April 12, 2007 at 09:15 PM
id like to see this map altered to see the caucasian mix. i'd bet my sweet ass the orange-blue dot ratio would change drastically.
Posted by: edddie | April 12, 2007 at 09:19 PM
I can understand the male patterns fairly well. They are all tech-heavy regions, and engineering as a profession is 70-80% male. Organizations may report a more balanced ratio, but from my experience female engineers migrate to marketing and project management faster than male engineers. Male engineers are more interested in the craft, while female engineers see the profession as a vehicle for personal enrichment and improvement, but don't really have their heart in it.
As far as Florida: central Florida is developing into a digital media content hub. Not exactly tech, but you do need to be creative and know how to use the computer tools. This is mitigated by Orlando's female bent; perhaps my explanation is wrong for central Florida.
However, the semiconductor belt running up central Texas and the chemical operations in Houston, as well as the biotech belt west of Boston seem to confirm this. And the West Coast...
For a female explanation, I think that the high rates of female enrollment in universities and the high rates of female employment in university administration would give any education-heavy city a female bias. Case in point: Berkeley, CA.
Posted by: siliconrogue | April 12, 2007 at 10:31 PM
At least in Boston, it's all about the ELDERLY single women. Makes sense given that life expectancy in massachusetts is 82 for females and 76 for males born in 2005.
In the city proper there are 22,000 more women than men (4% of total 589,000) but here's the rough breakdown:
Under 20: no difference
20 to 40: 3,500 more females
40 to 60: 3,500 more females
Over 60: 15,000 more females
www.idcide.com/citydata/ma/boston.htm
Posted by: even geekier (female) | April 13, 2007 at 12:36 AM
And if you look at the whole state (Massachusetts), there are actually more single men than women between 20-40 years of age. All states/cities are listed: http://www.idcide.com/citydata/ma/index.htm
Posted by: even geekier (female) | April 13, 2007 at 01:54 AM
What a sad, yet interesting map.
I would encourage some enterprising person at National Geographic to overlay the following statistics onto this map and see how neatly the circles correlate:
1) Race
2) Sexual Orientation
3) Communities of Illegal Aliens
I think you will quickly find that there is a striking correlation.
There are more single women in New Orleans, Miami, Chicago, Detroit, East St. Louis, Washington DC, Baltimore, Philadelphia, New York and Boston because there are high concentrations of African Americans in these locations (overlay single mothers to see how sad it must be to live in one of these fatherless communities.)
There are more single men in Houston, Austin, Dallas, Denver, Phoenix and San Diego because there are high concentrations of illegal aliens in these communities. (Men who come across to support their families, but don't bring their significant others.)
San Francisco, Seattle? Well ... you can figure out pretty easily why there are so many single men there. They haven't been allowed to marry.
Posted by: interestingmapguy | April 13, 2007 at 11:06 AM
Women in the DC area seem jaded. There are no smiles and they seem unapproachable. Not to mention no sense of humor.
Cali girls on the other hand are sooooo easy to talk to. My 2 cents.
Posted by: Andrew Choi | April 13, 2007 at 11:12 AM
This singles map shows I have no excuses for being single. I live just outside of Chicago and it looks like the windy city is a haven for lots of single women. I guess I'm kind of picky and I'm not really looking to meet anyone right now (even at 35 yrs old).
Posted by: Brad | April 13, 2007 at 01:43 PM
well no wonder why GA sucks.
i need to move out west!
Posted by: heather | April 13, 2007 at 07:42 PM
I have been to the beach cities in Los Angeles, CA., Wichita, Ks. and New York. In the beach cities in California, I would get hot girls coming up to me giving me their phone numbers. It was easy to meet women there. There might be more men, but its easy to get women there. Wichita should have a big blue circle there cause clubs will have about 5 guys to every girl. The girls here are proud of themselves no matter how many kids they have or fat they are. Most, like Nancy Belden just love you and then leave you. They are pathetic out here. In New York, just out and about there would be lots of women all over. Tulsa, Oklahoma had lots of girls there as well.
Posted by: American Guy | April 14, 2007 at 07:51 PM
First of all, unlike cattle, black people don't necessarily only date each other. Maybe this isn't true for other groups, which could be why there are more black women who are still single...
Second, there may be more women on the East coast than men, but the men in the Northeast seem much more interesting, assertive, fun than men on the West coast, and definitely moreso than men in the South.
I'd considered moving to Portland, but its lack of racial diversity worried me. What's the point of having more men than women if none of those men will even look at a black woman? Which is worse - not finding anyone to date because there aren't enough single men, or being surrounded by single men to whom you are invisible?
Posted by: darkhorse | April 15, 2007 at 04:34 PM
Agreed. I'm a heterosexual male, slowly moving from young adult into middle age. I've lived across the country and outside of it, and I find that I bring my problems with "getting a date" with me wherever I go. Some of my past homes have red dots, some have blue. Chicago is the only town I've ever been in where I felt like I was getting "a fair shake" instead of having to constantly BUST MY BUTT just to MEET viable potential partners. In New York, you can SEE a lot of attractive women on the streets, but then you try to get to know them and there's the whole big-city aloof stand-offish thing which I haven't ever learned to disarm. "Why is a stranger talking to me? Is he a serial killer? Does he murder people with an axe?" And in Chicago the VAST majority of young adult hetero females are BLUTO GIANT WHALES ... and therefore unattractive to me. Silly me, I have a normal human hetero male sex drive. Dangit, maybe my problem is, that I want to incorporate a normal human hetero male sex drive into the abnormal obese female North American context ...
Posted by: YumpaGrumpa | April 22, 2007 at 09:37 AM
Wow I'm surprised there are more single women in new orleans. Maybe that's why they always go around flashing.
Posted by: Motorcycle Guy | April 27, 2007 at 10:26 AM
I agree with the others; without the demographics to drill down, the aggregate data is virtually meaningless.
Ex: Fine, there are more single women total in the Boston-DC "corridor of death" than elsewhere. -But what are the per-capita %s on the 22-29, 105-130lb, no kids, white, latin, asian, >25% bodyfat, hotties?
-THOSE would truly be useful numbers! :)
-That, and NG should add a sidebar to the article on why every 1/2 ugly girl in the NYC area with a pair of butt-crack jeans and a crappy "Strokes" t-shirt thinks she's a Brazilian Supermodel and has the attitude problems to match.
-Ahh, the mysteries of life...
Posted by: Spencer | May 04, 2007 at 12:59 AM
As a single male in LA (and in my early 40s), I can say this does not feel like a city where guys outnumber the women. What that big blue dot is not showing is the high number of gay men here that make it quite nice for a straight guy- as far as dating women goes.
As much as NYC, the (white) professional women in the white collar/entertainment world are constantly bemoaning the "lack of guys." Take that however you want, but the single women in this city are not jumpng for joy at all the guys they have to date. Just ask them.
Posted by: PG | May 10, 2007 at 11:08 PM
I'm a single 40 year old woman(still looking hot) ha! and moving to San Franciso City...Will I actually meet lots of available single men to date???
That will be awsome because Honolulu Hawaii sucks big time for women. Beautiful women inside and out go litterally years without a date. I'm so ready for romance...I want to live in Sasulito...Hmmmm?? Well at least I'll be working in the city. I thought all the men in San Franciso were Gay?? I hope I'm wrong.
Posted by: Tess | May 12, 2007 at 04:37 AM
Hope you are wrong!
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Posted by: Karina | May 28, 2007 at 05:27 PM
I've lived in Seattle several years. I concur the dating scene here is not favorable for a single male. There are single women but seems a majority are overweight, which is the primary factor behind their single-ness.
Some anecdotal evidence that east coast dating is better for men. A male friend relocated to NYC recently and landed a GF within a month. He had no luck in the couple years I knew him in Seattle, and he was trying harder than most to land a girl. He said the NYC dating scene was much better and women more friendly and sincere.
Another male friend relocated to Chicago for work a few years ago. He's a short guy - probably 5'4" - and of course dating is more difficult for shorter guys. He had no luck in Seattle. He went to Chicago and now he's engaged. It took him some time there to land this girl, but before he met her he was telling me the opportunities in Chicago were much more plentiful.
A FEmale friend relocated from NYC said the dating scene here was way better. First time I met her there were 3 single guys including me buzzing around her trying to get a word in, trying to get her attention. Single and THIN, we just don't see that very often here.
Posted by: Luke Scott | June 19, 2007 at 09:05 PM
siliconrogue wrote:
"For a female explanation, I think that the high rates of female enrollment in universities and the high rates of female employment in university administration would give any education-heavy city a female bias. Case in point: Berkeley, CA."
Well, if the males are so mobile why don't the Silicon Valley males hie themselves to Berkeley then? The Berkeley gals only get as far as San Francisco before encountering the mounds of gay males and turning back.
Posted by: berkeley chick | June 29, 2007 at 01:01 PM
This explains the phenomenon in SF where the women think they're hotter than they are, which is the first thing my out of town friends (male and female) say upon spending time in SF. As we say here, the women think they're 2 points (on a scale of 1-10) hotter than they are. My LA friends best describe it, The City of Sixes.
Posted by: MikeS | July 08, 2007 at 08:41 PM
I live in Dallas and I can say that this map tells me what I have believed to be true for quite a while. I am an attractive successful guy who spent $1500 on a membership to an elite dating service. Half the women I met were educated afro-american professionals which argees with an earlier posting. Of the other mainly Caucasian half I would consider 1 out of 5 attractive.
A lot of guys I know agree that Dallas is a bad city to meet people. The girls I have luck with are usually from out of town and have not yet picked up on the local culture. I had one friend tell me that he dates out of town girls becuase "Dallas girls are hard". I had another friend tell me he married a foriegn girl becuase local girls are "all about money".
The local girls typically wear expensive clothes, have big egos, go out in groups that don't like being approached, and don't try to meet anyone becuase they expect to be setup at some point.
Posted by: James | July 31, 2007 at 12:36 AM
I'm a caucasian, 32, MA holding Canadian female in Australia and trying to decide between Canada and the US (Minn.) In Canada and Australia we are constantly hearing about a shortage of men (especially in major centres). I am thinking maybe I shouldn't head to one.
I can (as a girl) relate to a few other comments on here. It's one thing to meet a single guy, its another thing if he is not gay, house-trained and able to carry a conversation and attractive. But then I have been in Aus. for a few years, here they prefer to go out with their rugby mates and expect to make you a booty call (with the absolute worst sex I have ever had in my life - not from one guy - almost ALL of them.) Definitely time to leave, I sound jaded. I miss Canadian and American men.
Winnipeg and Minneapolis are looking better all the time.
Posted by: Lori | August 25, 2007 at 07:18 AM
The map reflects Latino male workers, may of whom are male and come to LA. The Western states have the male surplus. If they broke the map out by race all the extra men would be Hispanic (mostly Mexican).
Posted by: mike | August 30, 2007 at 10:41 PM
A San Francisco Bay Area 10 is an LA 5, which is odd cause there are more male gays then lesbians there. Also SF women do not attempt to look good in any way. Call it Metrosexual for females, the "dyke-ish" wanna be look. There are less obese people in sf then other areas though.
Posted by: mike | August 30, 2007 at 10:45 PM
Given the fact that this map indicates race, spoken language (Spanish) and social/economic class populations and religion (Catholic or Christian-Protestant) along with gender, and that people frequently date others of the same race and/ or primary language spoken (English or Spanish) and/or economic class and/or religion, it really has nothing to do with the reality of ease or difficulty of dating. In other words there are a s-itload of sub groups other then just men and women.
Posted by: mike | August 30, 2007 at 10:54 PM
Here's a link to an interactive map along the same lines:
Where do the top 40 cities rank for singles based on Nightlife, Career, Affordability and Online Dating Activity? See the results of the Forbes survey on Google Maps.
http://www.findmapping.com/single_dating/bestcitiesforsingles.php
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Posted by: Jim | October 18, 2007 at 02:20 AM
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Posted by: Phil | December 23, 2007 at 11:20 PM
Ethnicity plays a role, too. In the south and other large african-american areas, the males tend to suffer from more imprisonment and deaths overall.
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