Unmarried male/female ratio by specific geographic areas

Using the methodology described in my state post. For each area, I give the description, super-PUMA codes, the male/female ratio, and the person-weighted N. Data is from the

The Phoenix, AZ area and Buffalo, NY are very close to the nationwide ratio of 1.227.

Manhattan is pretty good for single men.

The San Francisco/Silicon Valley area is a horrible place for single men. Don’t move there if you are a single beta male and want to have any hope of finding a decent girlfriend.

Entire USA ratio=1.227 N=15,433,296
Manhattan (36101-36103) ratio=1.07 N=172,997
Buffalo (36052) ratio=1.23 N=35,721
Maricopa County (Phoenix metro area), AZ (4301-4306) ratio=1.24 N=189,246
San Francisco, city of (6130) ratio=1.39 N=101,269
San Mateo country (6140) ratio=1.19 N=35,832
Santa Clara county (6161-6163) ratio=1.44 N=85,207

Comments

[Hubbert]

Jacqueline Marie Paisley Plassey or whatever the heck her name is blogged about this circa 2005. And a commenter said something like "yeah, I lived in San Fransisco / Silicon Valley and realized that despite a $150k income and nice apartment I only had 1 girlfriend in 3 years and she was openly seeing 3 other guys."

[kurt9]

The Bay Area sucked 20 years ago. I had a friend who started work at Intel during the first boom (early 80's). He said that you go out to a restaurant or a club and there would be many engineers and hardly any women. I decided that there was no way I was moving to the Bay Area following college graduation. By the time I graduated, the semiconductor industry crashed 30% and there was no work to be found in the Bay Area anyways, problem solved.

I ended up in SoCal, which had a much better social scene than the Bay Area ever could. Also, Bay Area people are way more pretentious than SoCal people. Mind you, this is all late 80's and much has changed since then.

Guys, if you want a good social life, you've got to go international. I recommend Asia.