---
title: "Splitsville"
description: "Nevada has the highest share of divorced women (16%), although Maine is close behind at 15%."
date: "2009-01-06"
authors:
  - name: "Russell Heimlich"
    job_title: "Former web developer"
    link: "https://www.pewresearch.org/staff/russell-heimlich/"
url: "https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2009/01/06/splitsville/"
categories:
  - "Divorce"
---

# Splitsville

Looking at divorced adults, 16% of Nevada’s women and 13% of its men fit in that category, as do 15% of Maine’s women and 12% of its men. They are among the states with the largest shares of currently divorced residents, a distinction they share with Arizona, Oklahoma and Oregon. A similar measure — number of divorces within the previous 12 months per 1,000 women — tends to be high in states where women marry young, such as Oklahoma and Idaho. But the same link is not as strong for men: Alaska and Wyoming, for example, are among the top states for recently divorced men, but they are not states where men marry especially young. [Read More](https://www.pewresearch.org/pubs/1380/marriage-and-divorce-by-state)