How big is your dating pool?
Not "are your standards unrealistic" — just the count. Pick who you're looking for, an age range and where you live, and see roughly how many eligible single people that leaves, along with the local sex ratio.
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The most local estimate we can make — metro populations come from census data.
Used only for the odds panel — it never changes the headcount.
Count single people only
Excludes currently-married adults using census marital-status data.
How the dating pool calculator works
It starts from the adult population of the gender you're counting, keeps the share that falls inside your age range using the census age-by-sex table, and — if you're counting singles — removes currently-married adults using the marital-status table. Local numbers scale that national pool by the published population share of your state or metro area.
Sex ratio vs gender ratio: what the number means
A sex ratio of 100 means one man for every woman. Above 100 there are more men; below 100 there are more women. Nationally the adult ratio sits slightly below 100 because women live longer, but it flips above 100 in the youngest adult brackets — which is why the ratio you see depends heavily on the age range you pick. Filtering to single people moves it again, because men marry later on average.
Why your real pool feels smaller than the number
This tool counts eligibility, not compatibility, availability or interest. Everyone in the count is a real person in your area and age range who isn't married — but plenty of them are in relationships, not dating, or simply never in the same room as you. Treat the figure as a ceiling, and use the Ideal Partner Builder if you want to see what your specific criteria do to it.