Key takeaways
Biggest and smallest pools
California has an estimated 6.82 million women aged 18-44, about 12.6% of the national total. Vermont has about 94,000. The five largest states (California, Texas, New York, Florida, Illinois) together hold 39.6% of the pool.
Youngest and oldest states
Utah has the lowest median age at 31.3, while Maine is the oldest at 44.8. Older states have proportionally fewer women in the 18-44 range for the same total population.
Education
63% of women 25 and older in District of Columbia hold a bachelor's degree or higher, against 23% in West Virginia (population-weighted average across states: 36%). An education filter therefore removes far fewer people in the top states than the national math suggests.
Never married
55% of adult women in District of Columbia have never married, versus 25% in Utah (weighted average: 36%). Marriage timing, not just age, drives the gap.
All 50 states and DC
| State | Women 18-44 (est.) | Share of US pool | Median age | Bachelor's+ (women) | Never married (women) | Largest metro |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alabama | 843,000 | 1.6% | 39.4 | 29% | 35% | Birmingham metro |
| Alaska | 132,000 | 0.2% | 35.8 | 32% | 32% | Anchorage metro |
| Arizona | 1,226,000 | 2.3% | 38.7 | 33% | 33% | Phoenix metro |
| Arkansas | 506,000 | 0.9% | 38.6 | 26% | 30% | Little Rock metro |
| California | 6,819,000 | 12.6% | 37.6 | 37% | 40% | Los Angeles metro |
| Colorado | 1,058,000 | 2.0% | 37.5 | 45% | 34% | Denver metro |
| Connecticut | 561,000 | 1.0% | 41.1 | 43% | 38% | Hartford metro |
| Delaware | 155,000 | 0.3% | 41.5 | 35% | 36% | Wilmington (Philadelphia metro) |
| District of Columbia | 136,000 | 0.3% | 34.0 | 63% | 55% | Washington metro |
| Florida | 3,392,000 | 6.3% | 42.6 | 33% | 35% | Miami metro |
| Georgia | 1,930,000 | 3.6% | 37.5 | 35% | 38% | Atlanta metro |
| Hawaii | 237,000 | 0.4% | 40.4 | 36% | 36% | Honolulu metro |
| Idaho | 334,000 | 0.6% | 37.0 | 31% | 26% | Boise metro |
| Illinois | 2,133,000 | 4.0% | 39.0 | 38% | 38% | Chicago metro |
| Indiana | 1,132,000 | 2.1% | 38.2 | 29% | 33% | Indianapolis metro |
| Iowa | 529,000 | 1.0% | 38.8 | 32% | 31% | Des Moines metro |
| Kansas | 500,000 | 0.9% | 37.4 | 36% | 31% | Kansas City metro |
| Kentucky | 747,000 | 1.4% | 39.3 | 28% | 31% | Louisville metro |
| Louisiana | 778,000 | 1.4% | 37.9 | 28% | 39% | New Orleans metro |
| Maine | 195,000 | 0.4% | 44.8 | 36% | 33% | Portland metro |
| Maryland | 1,051,000 | 1.9% | 39.5 | 44% | 39% | Baltimore metro |
| Massachusetts | 1,190,000 | 2.2% | 40.1 | 48% | 40% | Boston metro |
| Michigan | 1,606,000 | 3.0% | 40.2 | 32% | 36% | Detroit metro |
| Minnesota | 975,000 | 1.8% | 38.6 | 40% | 34% | Minneapolis-St. Paul metro |
| Mississippi | 500,000 | 0.9% | 38.6 | 25% | 40% | Jackson metro |
| Missouri | 1,022,000 | 1.9% | 39.1 | 32% | 33% | St. Louis metro |
| Montana | 175,000 | 0.3% | 40.5 | 35% | 31% | Billings metro |
| Nebraska | 346,000 | 0.6% | 37.2 | 35% | 31% | Omaha metro |
| Nevada | 543,000 | 1.0% | 38.9 | 28% | 36% | Las Vegas metro |
| New Hampshire | 203,000 | 0.4% | 43.3 | 41% | 32% | Manchester-Nashua metro |
| New Jersey | 1,486,000 | 2.8% | 40.3 | 44% | 39% | New York City metro (northern NJ) |
| New Mexico | 338,000 | 0.6% | 39.1 | 30% | 36% | Albuquerque metro |
| New York | 3,425,000 | 6.3% | 39.6 | 41% | 42% | New York City metro |
| North Carolina | 1,842,000 | 3.4% | 39.1 | 36% | 35% | Charlotte metro |
| North Dakota | 145,000 | 0.3% | 35.9 | 33% | 32% | Fargo metro |
| Ohio | 1,886,000 | 3.5% | 39.7 | 31% | 35% | Columbus metro |
| Oklahoma | 709,000 | 1.3% | 37.2 | 28% | 30% | Oklahoma City metro |
| Oregon | 698,000 | 1.3% | 40.4 | 37% | 34% | Portland metro |
| Pennsylvania | 2,009,000 | 3.7% | 40.9 | 35% | 36% | Philadelphia metro |
| Rhode Island | 181,000 | 0.3% | 40.3 | 37% | 41% | Providence metro |
| South Carolina | 833,000 | 1.5% | 40.4 | 32% | 36% | Greenville metro |
| South Dakota | 161,000 | 0.3% | 37.7 | 33% | 31% | Sioux Falls metro |
| Tennessee | 1,176,000 | 2.2% | 39.1 | 31% | 33% | Nashville metro |
| Texas | 5,643,000 | 10.4% | 35.5 | 33% | 34% | Dallas-Fort Worth metro |
| Utah | 684,000 | 1.3% | 31.3 | 36% | 25% | Salt Lake City metro |
| Vermont | 94,000 | 0.2% | 43.2 | 43% | 36% | Burlington metro |
| Virginia | 1,482,000 | 2.7% | 38.8 | 42% | 36% | Virginia Beach-Norfolk metro |
| Washington | 1,367,000 | 2.5% | 38.2 | 40% | 34% | Seattle metro |
| West Virginia | 257,000 | 0.5% | 42.8 | 23% | 29% | Charleston metro |
| Wisconsin | 946,000 | 1.8% | 39.9 | 33% | 34% | Milwaukee metro |
| Wyoming | 96,000 | 0.2% | 39.0 | 30% | 28% | Cheyenne metro |
How to use these numbers
The calculators return a national probability: the share of US adults who match every filter you choose. Multiply that share by a state's estimated women aged 18-44 to get a rough local count. Preferences matching 1% of US women work out to about 68,190 women in California and about 940 in Vermont. Adjust up or down for filters where a state differs from the national average, such as education or marital status.
Estimates combine 2023 Census Bureau state population figures with American Community Survey age, sex, education, and marital status distributions, rounded to the nearest thousand. They are for statistical comparison, not exact headcounts. See our methodology and data sources.