U.S. Interracial Marriage Statistics

Credit Donkey ^ | 01/04/2018

[SeekAndFind]

17% of married couples today are interracial. This wasn't the case just 50 years ago, though. Richard and Mildred Loving helped make it possible with their sacrifice and willingness to fight.

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Interracial Marriage

• How many new marriages are interracial today?
  The number of interracial marriages has increased 5 times since 1967. Today, approximately 17% of married couples are interracial.

• How many couples that are still married today are interracial?
  1 out of 10 every married people, or 11 million people, are married to someone of a different race than themselves.

• What percentage of African Americans marry someone of a different race?
  18 % of African Americans marry someone of a different race. This is 13% higher than in 1980, when only 5% of African Americans married someone from a different race.

• What percentage of whites marry someone of a different race?
  11 % of white people marry someone of a different race today, compared to 4% in 1980.

• What percentage of Asians marry someone of a different race?
  People of Asian descent are the most likely to marry someone from a different race, as 29% of Asians today marry outside their ethnicity.

• What percentage of Hispanics marry someone of a different race?
  Hispanics come in second as the most likely to marry outside their ethnicity. 27% of Hispanics today are married to someone outside their race.

• What is the most common racial pairing today among newlywed couples?
  Today , the most common interracial pairing is one Hispanic spouse and one white spouse. This combination makes up 42% of interracial marriages today.

• Which state has the highest number of interracial newlyweds?
  Hawaii has the largest number of interracial newlyweds today. 42% of newlyweds in Honolulu are mixed race. The next city with the largest number of interracial marriages is Las Vegas, with 31% of married couples being interracial.

• When did the ban on interracial marriage end?
  The ban on interracial marriage ended with the decision of Loving vs Virginia on June 2, 1967.

• What percentage of recently married black men have a spouse of a different race?
  African American men have a higher likelihood of marrying outside their race. Men marry someone of another race 24% of the time.

• What percentage of recently married black women have a spouse of a different race?
  African American women are less likely to marry outside of their race. Women marry someone of another race approximately 12% of the time.

• What percentage of nonblack adults oppose a relative marrying a black person today?
  Today 's society is much more accepting of interracial marriage. Just a little more than 25 years ago, 63% of nonblack adults opposed interracial marriage. Today, that number is only 14%.

• What percentage of people with just a high school diploma marry someone from a different race?
  14 % of people with just a high school diploma and no college marry outside of their race.

• What percentage of people with a college degree marry someone from a different race?
  19 % of people with a bachelor's degree marry someone from a race other than their own.

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Miscellaneous Facts

• How many infants today are biracial?
  Today , 14% of infants are biracial. This is 9% higher than the 5% of biracial infants in 1980.

• What percentage of the population is biracial?
  According to a study conducted by Pew Research, 6.9% of the adult population is biracial. This is slightly elevated from the estimate provide by the Census Bureau, but the study takes into account the heritage of each adult, not just their self-reported race.

• What is the racial breakdown of the U.S. population?
  As of the latest census, the racial breakdown in the U.S. is as follows:

• White: 76.9%
  
• African American: 13.3%
  
• American Indian: 1.3%
  
• Asian: 5.7%
  
• Native Hawaiian: 0.2%
  
• More than 2 races: 2.6%

• What percent of interracial couples end up in divorce?
  Approximately 41% of mixed race couples end up in divorce within the first 10 years of marriage.

• What percent of same-race couples end up in divorce?
  Approximately 31% of same-race couples end up in divorce after 10 years.

• Who was the first interracial couple?
  Mildred and Richard Loving were the first white man and African American woman to marry despite the law against interracial marriage. As a result, they both spent time in jail and were forced from their home state of Virginia, seeking refuge in Washington.

• What is Loving Day?
  Loving Day is celebrated on June 12th every year and signifies the day the Supreme Court overruled the ban on interracial marriage.

• How long were the Lovings married?
  The Lovings were married for 17 years before Richard was tragically killed in a car accident in 1975.

The Bottom Line

Interracial marriage is much more common today than ever before. The Lovings paved the way for many couples to enjoy their love in peace.

Sources and References:

• Pew Research
  
• U.S. Supreme Court
  
• Census Bureau
  
• National Council on Family Relations
  
• PBS
  
• Loving Day

[SeekAndFind]

Talk Show Host Mark Levin cited stats similar to this one to show that America is NOT a systemically racist country by any stretch of the imagination

[snarkytart]

Today, approximately 17% of married couples are interracial.
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That's still not a lot considering the indoctrination from all media including movies and tv that celebrate and show interracial couples.

[TChad]

Bump for inconvenient facts.

[SeekAndFind]

RE: That’s still not a lot

That’s ONE IN SIX COUPLES and the trend is increasing !! I’d like to see any other country in the world match that.

[Paladin2]

Race is an artificial construct.

[snarkytart]

what does this prove other than Asians like to marry outside their race?

you think this will convince a black racist that whites are good?

As a matter of fact, Halle Barry accused her ex of calling her the N word during an argument in divorce papers. People to this day call him a racist.

[PghBaldy]

Just going by some very public examples of biracial people, it seems like when a white and a black marry, the kids grow up and hate whitey (Colin K., Megan Markle, Deblasio’s weird daughter, Obama).

[Nachoman]

Is it just me, or has anyone else noticed advertisers act like there is a federal law requiring couples on TV ads be depicted as bi-racial.

[Vendome]

I have a preference for Filipina’s or Latina’s

I like em mean as an alley cat...

[snarkytart]

No it's not just you, and that's why this is not something to be crowing about.

Especially considering the real integrators according to these stats are Hispanics and Asian. Either way they always embrace the “cool” ethnic side and disregard their whiteness.

That's also why demographics are such in this country that it's going to be almost impossible to win a national election for a conservative or even a Republican.

[Berosus]

For the record, I’m a classic W.A.S.P. (White Anglo-Saxon Protestant) and my wife is Filipina.

We have one child, a daughter, who looks more like me. Thus, only recently did she give the Asian side of her heritage much attention.

[The Unknown Republican]

I am genetically more black than Elizabeth Warren is Native American, but by culture and appearance I’m white. Who exactly sets the criteria here to define what is interracial?

[10mm]

"Today, the most common interracial pairing is one Hispanic spouse and one white spouse. This combination makes up 42% of interracial marriages today.

"What is the racial breakdown of the U.S. population?
As of the latest census, the racial breakdown in the U.S. is as follows:
White: 76.9%
African American: 13.3%
American Indian: 1.3%
Asian: 5.7%
Native Hawaiian: 0.2%
More than 2 races: 2.6%"

I see that Hispanics count as "interracial" for the purposes of marriage, but count as White for total racial breakdown.

[Tired of Taxes]

Race is an artificial construct.

In this country, it sure is. But, the Left needs to keep everyone divided.

[Yaelle]

The why the bleep doesn’t all the official school forms insist on you picking a race for your child and don’t allow “mixed”? There is no advantage to picking “white,” the only racist “color” listed; every other ethnicity is named after an ancestral geographical term. We are only given a stupid color. There can be 10 different race boxes and all but one refer to an area of planet earth.

[wardaddy]

You people are such fools

[Tired of Taxes]

Your children can check more than one box, or they can check “Other.”

Or, you could insist on leaving that section blank.

Of course, the best idea would be to eliminate those boxes. Don’t expect that to happen anytime soon, though.

[Mark17]

For the record, I’m a classic W.A.S.P. (White Anglo-Saxon Protestant) and my wife is Filipina.

WASP here too, with a Filipina wife. My son also looks more like me, and is now an Air Force pilot. His girlfriend is about the most beautiful Chinese woman I have ever seen. Her parents were from China. She was born in San Jose, California, and raised in Las Vegas, and is in medical school now. 🤗

[fr_freak]

Race is an artificial construct.

These days I have to ask - did you forget the sarcasm tag?

[TECTopcat]

oh yeah, you can’t see more than 2 commercials in a row without an interracial couple or person of color-if i were landing from another planet i wouold assume the country is 855 people of color-nothing wrong with it but it shows how people are bending over backwards to appear to be cool