Census: Households led by gay couples rose 80 percent
The number of U.S. households led by same-sex couples rose about 80 percent in the past 10 years, and more than 130,000 couples listed themselves as married, new U.S. Census Bureau data show.
But such households are still relatively rare: When compared with the nation’s 116 million households in 2010, gay-couple-led households accounted for barely more than half of 1 percent.
There were 358,390 gay couple households in 2000 and 646,464 such households in 2010, according to updated tallies from the decennial surveys....