South Carolina Ranked As One Of 2024’s Worst States in America For Singles

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With Valentine’s Day around the corner and inflation making dates more expensive, the personal-finance website WalletHub today released its report on 2024’s Best & Worst States for Singles.

To help unattached Americans improve their chances of finding love, the site compared the 50 states across 29 key indicators of dating-friendliness. The data set ranges from the share of single adults to online-dating opportunities to restaurants per capita.

They found South Carolina to be among the worst states in America, coming in at #41 overall. North Carolina came in toward the top of the ranking at #15 overall.

Best & Worst States for Singles

Overall Rank  State Total Score  Dating Opportunities Rank  Dating Economics Rank  Romance & Fun Rank 
1 Florida 66.92 3 32 1
2 Texas 63.99 7 19 4
3 California 62.83 2 49 3
4 New York 62.75 1 50 2
5 Pennsylvania 60.82 6 29 5
6 Illinois 59.22 5 34 8
7 Wisconsin 58.34 15 11 6
8 Ohio 57.20 11 18 9
9 Virginia 57.06 19 10 10
10 New Jersey 56.30 9 23 12
11 Massachusetts 55.40 4 48 13
12 Georgia 55.30 8 21 23
13 Minnesota 55.25 22 5 19
14 Missouri 55.07 25 7 14
15 North Carolina 54.49 12 22 16
16 Michigan 53.81 10 27 22
17 Colorado 52.97 24 15 18
18 Arizona 52.91 20 16 25
19 Connecticut 52.73 18 45 7
20 Washington 51.37 16 30 26
21 Utah 50.27 35 1 35
22 Indiana 50.08 29 13 29
23 Oregon 49.83 17 44 21
24 Vermont 49.11 27 26 28
25 Nevada 48.84 21 25 36
26 Maryland 48.75 14 40 31
27 Tennessee 48.64 30 24 20
28 Rhode Island 48.46 13 39 34
29 New Hampshire 48.25 31 37 11
30 Iowa 48.14 40 8 17
31 Louisiana 46.67 23 42 33
32 Delaware 46.20 26 31 41
33 Alabama 46.14 34 20 38
34 Idaho 45.94 41 9 27
35 Montana 45.62 45 14 15
36 Nebraska 45.29 46 4 32
37 Oklahoma 44.46 39 12 39
38 Maine 44.35 36 43 24
39 Kansas 44.06 42 6 40
40 Mississippi 43.19 33 33 45
41 South Carolina 42.76 38 28 42
42 New Mexico 41.74 28 41 50
43 Hawaii 41.58 32 47 43
44 South Dakota 41.06 49 2 37
45 Wyoming 39.63 47 17 44
46 Kentucky 39.44 43 38 30
47 Alaska 38.87 37 46 49
48 Arkansas 37.25 44 35 47
49 North Dakota 36.82 50 3 46
50 West Virginia 35.59 48 36 48

Note: With the exception of “Total Score,” all of the columns in the table above depict the relative rank of that state, where a rank of 1 represents the best conditions for that metric category.