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About what share of U.S. adults say marriages between same-sex couples should be legally valid?

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2015

In what year did same-sex marriage become legal nationwide in the United States?

The Supreme Court's Obergefell v. Hodges decision legalized it in every state.

Source: Wikipedia (2015) en.wikipedia.org

0.5%

According to the 2020 Census, about what share of all U.S. households were same-sex married couples?

Unmarried same-sex couples made up a similar share, about 0.4% of households.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau (via Wikipedia) (2020) en.wikipedia.org

about 741,000

About how many married same-sex couple households were there in the U.S. in 2022?

That number continued to grow, reaching over 774,000 by 2023.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau (via Wikipedia) (2022) en.wikipedia.org

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