More single women becoming homeowners than single men in Georgia, new data shows

ATLANTA, Ga. (Atlanta News First) - More and more single women like being homeowners and are putting their names on deeds.

Lending Tree compiled 2022 data from the U.S. Census Bureau on homeownership across the United States. The data shows that single women own more homes than single men in most states.

Georgia ties with Vermont at No. 13 when it comes to homeownership by single women, according to 2022 U.S. Census Bureau data compiled by Lending Tree.

In the Peach State, 13.12% of homeowners are single women. That’s 4% higher than single men homeownership, which is 9.12%. The data shows that in 2022, of the more than 2 million homeowners in Georgia, 353,196 were single women and 245,424 were single men.

Across the United States, the study found that single women in 2022, in total, owned 2.71 million more homes than single men. There 10.9 million single woman homeowners compared to the 8.2 million single man homeowners, according to Lending Tree.

The states with the highest percentage of homeownership by single women are Delaware, Louisiana and Mississippi, according to Lending Tree. The states with the highest number of homeowners that are single men are New Mexico, North Dakota and Alaska.

Delaware, Maryland and Massachusetts have the widest gender gap when it comes to homeownership.

Alaska, North Dakota and South Dakota are the only three states where single men own more homes than single women, Lending Tree found.