You can change who you meet. You can change how you search. But what if the place you're searching has been changing around you?
We tend to explain our relationship experiences through chemistry, timing, personal history and choices. But a less familiar question deserves attention: how have the relationship patterns around us changed?
Across America, communities differ in their unmarried populations, household patterns and relationship-formation trends. Those differences give us something worth investigating—rather than guessing about.
Follow the curiosity. Discover how unmarried populations vary across places and age groups.
Explore the question ↗Investigate your local context and compare it with the places around you.
Explore Love by ZIP ↗Look beyond today's snapshot to trends, grades and national comparisons.
Explore the intelligence ↗State rankings have captured America’s attention. But what happens when we look closer? Compare the national picture with the ZIP-level relationship-market trends NDS is built to investigate.
Studies like WalletHub's offer a fascinating picture of how states compare for singles. But if you're searching for love, the more personal question may be what is happening in your own community.
A state can rank highly while individual ZIP codes within it tell very different stories. And a ZIP code in a lower-ranked state may have relationship-market trends that are stronger than those in parts of a higher-ranked state.
That is why National Data System looks closer.
Our ZIP-level intelligence examines changes in potential partner populations and partnership-formation patterns. It allows you to investigate whether the relationship market around you is strengthening, weakening, or simply keeping pace with the nation.
You may have already sensed that something has changed where you live. Now you have an opportunity to investigate whether the evidence supports what you've been experiencing.
And if another geographic market deserves consideration, continue the investigation with Relocate for Love .
Examines changes in a defined unmarried-partner population, comparing local movement with the national trend.
An independently graded measureExamines selected household and family-formation indicators and how their local movements compare with the nation.
A separate independently graded measureThese are the published categories of Relationship Market Trend Intelligence V1.1.0, not an overall grade for a person or a ZIP on this page. Each indicator receives its own certified score and grade. Explore the research ↗
Your reason for arriving may be as important as the question itself. Choose what brought you here and follow a relevant line of inquiry.
Have a ZIP code in mind? Capture your starting point for the next step in NDS geographic exploration.
Follow local trends instead of relying on old assumptions about where people live and how they form relationships.
Counts and concentrations can tell different stories. The interesting answer may depend on what you ask.
Use the relationship intelligence to investigate geographic patterns, then decide which personal questions matter next.
Sometimes the evidence confirms an uncomfortable suspicion. Sometimes it changes the question entirely. Either way, the purpose is clearer understanding—and better decisions.