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Singles in Austria: numbers by age and sex
About 3.2 million of the 7.6 million adults in Austria are single in the calculator’s sense. The page gives the split by age and sex, sets it beside Germany and Switzerland, and follows one standard search from the whole population down to the available singles.
The short answer
The model puts the number of single adults in Austria at about 3.2 million, or 43% of all adults (data year 2025): about 40% of men and 45% of women. “Single” means neither married nor in an unmarried partnership. In the standard search (ages 28 to 38) that leaves about 274,000 available single women for a man looking for women and about 300,000 available single men for a woman looking for men. Treat the figures as estimates with a band of about ±12%.
Single adults by age group and sex
The table starts from the model’s population of Austria by single year of age and applies the married and the partnered share of each sex and age group. Everyone who is neither is counted as single.
The table counts all adults before sexual orientation is taken into account. It shows who is neither married nor partnered, not whom a particular search would reach.
| Age | Sex | Adults | Married | Partnered, not married | Single | Single share |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18–29 | Men | 610,000 | 18,300 | 110,000 | 482,000 | 79% |
| Women | 592,000 | 29,600 | 107,000 | 456,000 | 77% | |
| 30–44 | Men | 877,000 | 432,000 | 94,700 | 350,000 | 40% |
| Women | 869,000 | 461,000 | 93,800 | 315,000 | 36% | |
| 45–59 | Men | 1,050,000 | 649,000 | 62,800 | 335,000 | 32% |
| Women | 1,080,000 | 681,000 | 64,800 | 335,000 | 31% | |
| 60+ | Men | 1,110,000 | 755,000 | 55,500 | 300,000 | 27% |
| Women | 1,390,000 | 669,000 | 55,700 | 669,000 | 48% | |
| All adults, 18+ | Men | 3,640,000 | 1,850,000 | 323,000 | 1,470,000 | 40% |
| Women | 3,940,000 | 1,840,000 | 321,000 | 1,770,000 | 45% |
Single shares run from 31% in the 45–59 group to 78% in the 18–29 group. The largest number of single adults, about 969,000, is in the 60+ group.
Single men and single women
Among 18 to 29 year olds the model has 106 single men for every 100 single women; among those aged 60 and over it has 45. The first age group in which women are more often single than men is 60+.
In the oldest group 68% of men but only 48% of women are married. The difference mostly reflects widowhood and women’s longer lives.
| Age | Single men | Single women | Men per 100 women |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18–29 | 482,000 | 456,000 | 106 |
| 30–44 | 350,000 | 315,000 | 111 |
| 45–59 | 335,000 | 335,000 | 100 |
| 60+ | 300,000 | 669,000 | 45 |
| All adults, 18+ | 1,470,000 | 1,770,000 | 83 |
How Austria compares with Germany and Switzerland
In the model the single share of all adults in Austria (43%) is higher than the share in Germany (41%) and about the same as the share in Switzerland (42%).
These are shares of the whole adult population, so a difference mixes age structure with relationship patterns and with how completely the surveys behind each country file capture partnerships. A gap of a point or two is within what the data can tell apart. The same tables for the neighbours are on Singles in Germany and Singles in Switzerland.
From the population to the available singles
The tables follow one standard search through Austria: everybody, the people of the sex being looked for, those aged 28 to 38, those attracted to the searcher’s gender, and finally those who are neither married nor partnered. In this standard search a woman looking for men has the larger pool (about 300,000 available singles, against about 274,000 for a man looking for women).
Of the about 591,000 women aged 28 to 38 who are attracted to men, 54% are married or partnered; among men aged 28 to 38 who are attracted to women it is 50%.
The lines down to “aged 28–38” count all people of that sex and age before sexual orientation is taken into account. Orientation is applied in the next line, and only then are the married and the partnered removed.
| Step | People | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Population, all ages | 9,200,000 | – |
| Women | 4,730,000 | 51% |
| Women aged 28–38 | 607,000 | 13% |
| Attracted to men (orientation applied) | 591,000 | 97% |
| Of them married | 243,000 | 41% |
| Of them partnered, not married | 74,500 | 13% |
| Available singles | 274,000 | 46% |
| Step | People | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Population, all ages | 9,200,000 | – |
| Men | 4,470,000 | 49% |
| Men aged 28–38 | 617,000 | 14% |
| Attracted to women (orientation applied) | 595,000 | 96% |
| Of them married | 220,000 | 37% |
| Of them partnered, not married | 75,000 | 13% |
| Available singles | 300,000 | 50% |
Which definition of “single”?
Here a person is single when they are neither married nor partnered, whether or not they want a relationship. Divorced and widowed people without a partner are included; couples who live together without marrying are not.
Austrian statistics offer other readings. The legal family status distinguishes never married, married, in a registered partnership, divorced and widowed. Household statistics sort people by who lives together, and a one-person household only says that somebody lives alone. All of them are legitimate and none is “single” in the everyday sense. Single, unmarried and living alone sets the concepts side by side.
What Statistik Austria counts
The table names the main Austrian sources and what each one measures. We do not repeat their figures, because they are revised with every release; follow the links for current values.
| Source | What it measures | Why it is not the same as “single” here |
|---|---|---|
| Statistik Austria: population statistics | The resident population by age, sex and legal family status, compiled from the population registers. | It counts residents on a reference date by legal status, not by whether they have a partner. |
| Statistik Austria: register-based census (Registerzählung) | A count of population and households taken from administrative registers instead of questionnaires. | It is a snapshot of one reference date and it records what the registers record: legal status and addresses, not relationships. |
| Statistik Austria: family and household statistics (Mikrozensus) | A continuing sample survey of households that describes families, couples and household types, including unmarried couples who live together. | A partner who lives in a separate home generally cannot be recognised from household data, and a sample survey is not a count of everybody. |
| Statistik Austria: households and living alone | The number and size of private households, including one-person households. | Living alone is a housing fact: it includes people in a relationship who keep their own flat and leaves out single people who share one. |
Limits of the model figures
The data file for Austria has confidence “high”, which the calculator turns into a band of about ±12% on counts of this kind. The married and partnered shares are survey based estimates by age group, not register counts.
The model uses a population of 9.2 million for the data year 2025, the resident population as counted by the national statistics office. Official figures are updated every year and can differ by the reference date and by who counts as a resident. When the dataset is refreshed, this page changes with it.
The civil-status tables count all adults. A real pool is smaller: it depends on the sex you look for, your age range, orientation and every other filter.
Turn it into your own search
Pick an age range and who you are looking for: the calculator removes the married and the partnered the way this page does, applies orientation and any filter you add, and shows the funnel step by step. More on the method: how DateTruth counts.
Try it with your own numbers
Start with the standard profile for Austria, then change the age range or add filters.
A man looking for women, 28–38 A woman looking for men, 28–38