Seattle No.1 city for gay couples
Move over, San Francisco.
Seattle now has the highest concentration of gay-couple households among America’s large cities.
Recently-released estimates from the Census Bureau show that in 2012, 2.6 percent of Seattle households were gay couples. That is the highest percentage among the 50 most populous cities in the United States.
It’s a sharp reversal from previous census estimates. In 2011, San Francisco had 2.4 percent gay-couple households to Seattle’s 1.7.
There are about 125,000 couples living together in Seattle; of those, an estimated 7,551 are gay couples, whether married or unmarried. That pencils out to about one in every 17 couple households in the city.
In Seattle, as in most of the 50 cities, the majority of gay couple households are men, but it is a fairly even split here: 46 percent of Seattle’s gay couples are women.
