Single women own more homes in Arkansas than single men — and overall homeownership is now majority female .
Why it matters: Sixty years ago, women couldn’t even get a credit card or a mortgage without a male cosigner. Now, the share of single women homeowners eclipses that of single men .
State of play: Census data show 13.8% of homes in Arkansas are owned by single women, compared to 10.1% by single men.
Driving the news: Nationally , solo women mortgage applicants made up 18% of the market in 2023 — a share that’s slowly grown since mortgage platform Maxwell started tracking applicants’ gender and marital status in 2021.
- One in three women with partners bought alone because they were in a stronger financial position to do so, Maxwell’s annual Single Women Home Buyer Report found.
What they’re saying: The number of women homeowners is rising — and there’s a strong shift toward women-led households, Urban Institute researcher Jung Hyun Choi tells Axios.
By the numbers: In 1990, less than one-third of total households (married and single) were headed by females. In 2021, the majority (51%) of households reported being female led.