{"id":326438,"date":"2026-08-21T04:52:20","date_gmt":"2026-08-21T04:52:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/326438\/"},"modified":"2026-08-21T04:52:20","modified_gmt":"2026-08-21T04:52:20","slug":"married-couples-are-nycs-largest-homeowner-group-except-in-1-borough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/326438\/","title":{"rendered":"Married couples are NYC\u2019s largest homeowner group \u2014 except in 1 borough"},"content":{"rendered":"

Forget the white picket fence with a family living within it. In Manhattan, the modern homeowner is more likely to be signing the deed alone, or with a partner who isn’t a spouse<\/a>, than walking down the aisle first.<\/p>\n

A new PropertyShark analysis<\/a> of homeownership across New York City found that married couples remain the dominant owner group citywide, but Manhattan bucks that pattern entirely.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Nonfamily owners \u2014 meaning residents who live solo or share a home with an unmarried partner or roommate rather than a spouse or relatives \u2014 edge out married-couple families on the island, 48% to 45%. It’s the only city borough where that flip happens.<\/p>\n

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A new PropertyShark analysis of New York City homeownership finds that while married couples remain the city’s dominant homeowner group at 51%, well below the 59% national average, Manhattan stands alone among the boroughs as a haven for singles. Getty Images<\/p>\n

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Nonfamily owners (residents living solo or with an unmarried partner or roommate) edge out married couples 48% to 45% in Manhattan. Getty Images<\/p>\n

Citywide, married-couple families still hold the largest share of homes at 51%, though that trails the 59% national average by a wide margin.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Nonfamily owners, meanwhile, make up 31% of the city’s homeowner pool, well above the 27% rate seen nationally, underscoring just how different New York’s housing culture is from the rest of the country.<\/p>\n

Outside Manhattan, the traditional family unit still rules.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Staten Island sits at the opposite extreme, with married couples owning 60% of homes, followed by Brooklyn and Queens at 53% each and The Bronx at 42%. James \u2013 stock.adobe.com<\/p>\n

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At the neighborhood level, Manhattan claims eight of the city’s 10 most single-dominated pockets, led by Central Park South at 73%. Getty Images<\/p>\n

Staten Island leads the pack with 60% of homes owned by married couples, followed closely by Brooklyn and Queens at 53% apiece. The Bronx trails the other boroughs at 42%, though married couples remain the top owner type there too.<\/p>\n

Zoom into individual neighborhoods and Manhattan’s dominance as a singles’ borough gets even starker.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Eight of the 10 New York City neighborhoods where nonfamily owners are the majority sit in Manhattan, led by Central Park South at 73%, Hudson Yards at 69% and Tudor City at 68%.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, the most traditional pocket of homeownership in the entire city is Mill Basin in Brooklyn<\/a>, where married couples hold a commanding 75% share, the highest of any neighborhood surveyed.<\/p>\n

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Mill Basin in Brooklyn is the most married neighborhood in the city at 75%. Google Maps<\/p>\n

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A new PropertyShark analysis of New York City homeownership finds that while married couples remain the city’s dominant homeowner group at 51%, well below the 59% national average, Manhattan stands alone among the boroughs as a haven for singles. Getty Images<\/p>\n

The data also flags a quieter shift in who’s leading households.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Female-led families, meaning homes headed by a woman<\/a> with relatives present and no spouse, are the top owner type in five NYC neighborhoods, topping out at 44% in The Bronx’s Longwood.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Male-led family households, by contrast, don’t lead a single neighborhood in the five boroughs, peaking at just 29% in Mount Hope.<\/p>\n

Age tells its own story about who can actually afford to buy in New York.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Just 8% of city homes are owned by someone under 35, compared with 38% owned by residents 65 and older, a gap that speaks to how steep the climb into homeownership has become for younger New Yorkers even as older generations hold tight to what they’ve built.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Forget the white picket fence with a family living within it. In Manhattan, the modern homeowner is more…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":326439,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[43274,75,122857,9,24,56,63,65,64,19419],"class_list":["post-326438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-homeownership","tag-manhattan","tag-married-couples","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-headlines","tag-nyc-news","tag-propertyshark"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=326438"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326438\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/326439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=326438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=326438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=326438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}