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Same-Sex Couple Presence

ACS same-sex spouse/partner relationship presence scored with population-aware smoothing.

Scale0-100

Higher values rank better for this score.

How It's Calculated

The latest published score is normalized to a 0-100 scale. The method below explains what the score rewards, with technical source metadata available for audit.

Scoring Method

How the ranking is built

Same-Sex Couple Presence rewards places with a stronger ACS same-sex spouse/partner relationship signal.

  1. 1

    Same-sex spouse/partner share is smoothed toward the all-place mean with a 5,000-person prior denominator.

  2. 2

    The score blends 65% population-weighted percentile rank of smoothed share and 35% percentile rank of log same-sex spouse/partner count.

  3. 3

    This intentionally gives credit to both concentration and real community size while reducing tiny-place noise.

Technical details
Score TypeMaster Score

Read from the current master score table for this criterion.

Ranking BasisSingle Score

The top 10 below ignore your blended relocation weights and sort only by Same-Sex Couple Presence.

No source details available for this score.

What This Score Means

Same-Sex Couple Presence rewards places with a stronger ACS same-sex spouse/partner relationship signal.

Statistics Feeding This Score

  • Same-sex spouse/partner people

    ACS people identified as a same-sex spouse or unmarried partner of the householder.

    Source: U.S. Census American Community Survey 5-Year
  • Population in households

    ACS population in households used as the denominator.

    Source: U.S. Census American Community Survey 5-Year

Source Data

Source: U.S. Census American Community Survey 5-YearCensus ACS 5-year estimates for housing, income, population, occupation, education, and race/ethnicity inputs at place, county, or CBSA geography depending on the score.

Known Limits

  • These are social-climate proxies, not guarantees of personal safety, discrimination risk, neighborhood-level culture, or lived experience.
  • HRC MEI directly covers 506 municipalities; unmatched places use a conservative state-sample fallback for the policy component.
  • ACS same-sex spouse/partner counts are household-relationship estimates, not a full LGBTQ population estimate, and can be noisy for small places.
  • The score does not yet include Pride/community organizations, LGBTQ healthcare access, trans-specific protections, school policies, or directly measured anti-LGBTQ hate crimes.

Top 10 Locations

Ranked by Same-Sex Couple Presence.

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