If you have ever been to Atlanta, these figures might not surprise you. There seems to be an abundance of single women in America’s black capital, but this isn’t surprising as information from previous census data was calculated.

Richard Florida was one of the people behind the new study on singles in America. He found large differences between single men and women living in a variety of city’s around the country. Atlanta happens to be one of our favorite cities, so let’s begin there.

According to Florida and his research team at the Martin Prosperity Institute in Toronto, Atlanta has close to 80,000 more single women (ages 18-64) than single men. This represents one of the largest gaps between black singles in the country. Again, this was according to an analysis of previous census data.

“Back in February 2007, National Geographic published its infamous‘Singles Map.’ Eight years later, an update seems in order,” wrote Richard Florida discussing the findings for their research study on singles ins the country. In fact, all age ranges, the breakdown was similar, more single women than men (18-24, 25-34, 35-44 and 45-64).

What’s interesting is the rest of Florida’s maps

What’s interesting is the rest of Florida’s maps where he show the cities with more single men or women across the country.

“As in 2007, the odds still favor single men on the East Coast, single women on the West,” Florida wrote.

The maps are very interesting as it seems the East Coast have more single women than men, but the West Coast has more single men than women. The study gives no clues as to why this might be true, but merely points out the details of the study.

New York has an estimated 230,000 more single women than men, Atlanta a little over 80,000, Philadelphia about 70,000, and D.C. nearly 65,000.

Conversely, there are roughly 50,000 more single men than women in San Diego; a surplus of 38,000 men in Seattle; and over 20,000 more single men than women in San Jose, San Francisco, L.A., Honolulu and Las Vegas. The odds also favor single women in the Twin Cities of Minneapolis-St. Paul, Phoenix, Denver, Salt Lake City, Austin, and Portland, Oregon.

Source: CityLab.com

SOUND OFF: What are your thoughts on ATL single numbers and the fact that there are more single women to the east and more single men west?