What the numbers mean for dating in North Dakota
North Dakota's 783,000 residents include an estimated 145,000 women aged 18 to 44 — about 0.27% of the national pool, though the state punches above its weight in youth. The Fargo metro, at roughly 260,000 and anchored by North Dakota State University, holds the state's liveliest singles scene; Bismarck and Grand Forks follow. The Bakken oil counties in the west remain shaped by the 2010s boom, which drew tens of thousands of predominantly male workers.
That oil legacy gives North Dakota one of the most male-skewed sex ratios in the country — around 104 to 106 men per 100 women statewide, and far more lopsided in the oil patch — making raw odds notably tougher for men and easier for women. The median age of 35.9 is among the nation's youngest. About 33% of women 25 and older hold a bachelor's degree, and roughly 32% of adult women have never married.
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 1,450 women in North Dakota. 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.