Table 2. Families by presence and relationship of employed members and family type, 2019-2020 annual averages

Table 2. Families by presence and relationship of employed members and family type, 2019-2020 annual averages [Numbers in thousands]
Characteristic	Number		Percent distribution
Characteristic	2019	2020	2019	2020
TOTAL MARRIED-COUPLE FAMILIES(1)
Total	60,975	61,375	100.0	100.0
With at least one family member employed	49,625	48,279	81.4	78.7
With only one spouse employed	15,349	16,408	25.2	26.7
With both spouses employed	30,333	27,921	49.7	45.5
Other employment combinations	3,943	3,950	6.5	6.4
With no family member employed	11,350	13,096	18.6	21.3
Opposite-sex married-couple families
Total	60,449	60,804	100.0	100.0
With at least one family member employed	49,162	47,785	81.3	78.6
Husband only	11,108	11,644	18.4	19.1
Wife only	4,123	4,614	6.8	7.6
Husband and wife	30,003	27,591	49.6	45.4
Other employment combinations	3,929	3,937	6.5	6.5
With no family member employed	11,287	13,018	18.7	21.4

FAMILIES MAINTAINED BY WOMEN(2)
Total	15,188	14,826	100.0	100.0
With at least one family member employed	11,938	11,089	78.6	74.8
Householder only	6,138	5,879	40.4	39.7
Householder and other member(s)	3,520	3,108	23.2	21.0
Other member(s), not householder	2,280	2,102	15.0	14.2
With no family member employed	3,250	3,737	21.4	25.2

FAMILIES MAINTAINED BY MEN(2)
Total	6,944	6,943	100.0	100.0
With at least one family member employed	5,940	5,627	85.5	81.1
Householder only	2,709	2,706	39.0	39.0
Householder and other member(s)	2,244	1,959	32.3	28.2
Other member(s), not householder	987	963	14.2	13.9
With no family member employed	1,004	1,315	14.5	18.9
Footnotes (1) Beginning with data for 2019, includes both opposite-sex and same-sex married-couple families. Prior to 2019, included opposite-sex married-couple families only. (2) Beginning with data for 2019, includes families with no spouse of either sex present. Prior to 2019, included only families with no opposite-sex spouse present.
NOTE: In families maintained by women or men with no spouse present, householder refers to the woman or man maintaining the family. Detail may not sum to totals due to rounding. Updated population controls are introduced annually with the release of January data. Family estimates reflect a change in the classification of marital status. Data for 2019 and 2020 incorporate this change into the definition of families, which expands the definition of married-couple families to include same-sex married couples. As a result, data under the new definition are not strictly comparable with data for previous years. Data for 2019 in this news release incorporate the new definition; therefore, 2019 estimates shown here do not match those published in the "Employment Characteristics of Families--2019" news release and in the BLS online database.

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Last Modified Date: December 20, 2021