While divorce rates are declining, there are still more than a dozen states with rates “significantly higher” than the national average.
According to the Census Bureau, the divorce rate declined 28 percent between 2012 and 2022. Data found that the national divorce rate was 7.1 new divorces for every 1,000 women, while Arkansas, Wyoming, Kentucky, West Virginia and Oklahoma round out the top five of places with a higher rate.
However, there were states like California, Illinois, New York, Pennsylvania and six others that fell on the opposite end of the spectrum with “significantly lower” rates of divorce.
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