The Associated Press covers the rising levels of Americans living alone.

This is especially true in Manhattan, where “solos accounted for 48 percent of all households on the island, putting [it] ahead of other singles magnets like Washington D.C., St. Louis, Denver and San Francisco.”

“The increase in the percentage of single-person households is a continuation of a trend that began decades ago. In 1950, just 9.3 percent of U.S. households consisted of people living alone, according to the Census Bureau.”

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