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26% of Home Buyers in Illinois are Single Women

Posted by Judy Orr on Wednesday, January 31st, 2007 at 12:22pm.

As I was reading through my Illinois Association of REALTORS e-mail magazine I was interested in their latest statistics on home buyers in Illinois.  The statistics are as follows:

8% = single males  

26% = single females 

44% = first time home buyers

57% = married couples 

I sell a lot of homes to unmarried couples so I'm not sure how that is factored into the above figures.  I was also surprised at the low figure for single men.  I wouldn't have thought it was so low based on my own experience.  Of course, this is taken for the entire state of Illinois and not just the Chicago and southwest suburban area so I'm sure those figures would be somewhat different.  UPDATE:  the survey link is no longer active and please refer to the original date of this blog post.


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