What the numbers mean for dating in Maryland
Maryland's 6.18 million residents include an estimated 1.05 million women aged 18 to 44, close to 2% of the national pool. The state is effectively one continuous urban corridor: the Baltimore metro of about 2.8 million flows directly into the Washington suburbs of Montgomery and Prince George's counties, which together hold over two million more. A dater in central Maryland can realistically draw on both the Baltimore and DC markets — a combined region approaching ten million people.
Maryland women are among the most educated in the country, with roughly 44% of those 25 and older holding at least a bachelor's degree, driven by federal agencies, NIH, Johns Hopkins, and the defense corridor. The median age of 39.5 is near the national mark, and about 39% of adult women have never married, elevated by professional-class marriage delays inside the Beltway. Maryland also skews female overall — around 106 women per 100 men — with Baltimore City showing one of the stronger female tilts of any major U.S. city.
A national probability from our calculator scales roughly with a state's share of the US population: preferences matching 1% of US women translate to about 10,510 women in Maryland. State demographics like education and marriage rates shift the real figure up or down.
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Methodology note
Estimates combine 2023 Census Bureau state population figures with American Community Survey age, sex, education, and marital status distributions. Figures are rounded estimates for statistical education, not precise counts. See our methodology and data sources.