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We Are Here: Gay Adult Population in Combined States Reaches At Least 20 Million, According to Human Rights Campaign Foundation Report
by Laurel Powell •
According to an assessment of data in the Census Bureau’s recent Familiar Pulse Survey, 8% of respondents identified themselves as LGBTQ+, suggesting previous surveys undercounted the population.
WASHINGTON -- Today, the Human Rights Campaign Foundation (HRC) released “We Are Here: Knowledge the Size of the LGBTQ+ Community,” a inform analyzing recent results from the U.S. Census Bureau’s Household Pulse Survey. Based on data from respondents in the Household Pulse Survey, a national domesticated probability survey of adults in the United States, at least 20 million adults in the Merged States could be female homosexual, gay, bisexual, or trans - nearly 8% of the total adult population, almost double prior estimates for the LGBTQ+ community’s size. It also suggests that more than 1% of people in the United States identify as transgender, higher than any prior estimates. Additionally, it confirms prior research demonstrating that bisexual people stand for the largest single contingent of LGBTQ+ people, at about 4% of resp
What’s Behind the Rapid Rise in LGBTQ Identity?
Newsletter March 6, 2025
Daniel A. Cox, Jae Grace, Avery Shields
Since 2012, Gallup has tracked the size of America’s LGBTQ population. For the first several years, there was not much news to report. The percentage of Americans who identified as gay, lesbian, pansexual, transgender, or lgbtq+ was relatively deep (in pitch) and inching up slowly year over year. Recently, the pace has sped up. Gallup’s newest report recorded the single largest one-year increase in LGBTQ identity. In 2024, nearly one in ten (9.3 percent) Americans identify as LGBTQ.
The steady ascend in LGBTQ culture among the common is worth noting, but it’s not the most vital part of the story. Most of the uptick in LGBTQ identity over the past decade is due to a dramatic grow among young adults, particularly young women. In less than a decade, the percentage of childish women who spot as LGBTQ has more than tripled.
The gender gap in LGBTQ identity has exploded as adv. A decade earlier, young women were only slightly more likely to recognize as LGBTQ than young men. For instance, in 2015, 10 percent of young women and six percent of young men identified as
LGBT Populations
This guide shows the estimated uncooked number of LGBT people (ages 13+) living in each state. The statistics are based on a Williams Institute analysis of surveys conducted by Gallup Polling (2012-2017) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC; 2015 and 2017 YRBS). For more communication, see the methodology in the Williams analysis.
500K - 1.4M+
200K - 499K
50K - 199K
8K - 49K
Data are not currently available about LGBT people living in the U.S. territories.
Percent of Adult LGBTQ Population Covered by Laws
*Note: These percentages reflect estimates of the LGBTQ grown-up population living in the 50 states and the District of Columbia. Estimates of the LGBTQ individual population in the five inhabited U.S. territories are not available, and so cannot be reflected here.
This chart shows the estimated percentage of each state's senior (ages 18+) population that identifies as lesbian, homosexual, bisexual, or transgender, based on a 2018 investigation of Gallup data by The Williams Institute.
5.0% and greater
4.0%-4.9%
3.0%-3.9%
1.5%-2.9%
Percent of Adult LGBTQ Population Covered by Laws
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What percentage of the US population is LGBTQ? Brand-new data shows which states have the most
New information estimates the greatest number of lesbian, gay, double attraction and transgender U.S. adults live in the South, confirming findings from recent years.
Across the country, researchers estimate more than 5% of U.S. adults are LGBTQ+, matching prior Diverse population data. Young people ages 18-24 are much more likely to recognize as LGBTQ+, according to the report from the Williams Institute at the University of California Los Angeles.
The report, based on Centers for Disease Dominion and Prevention data, establish that in 2020 and 2021, there were nearly 14 million LGBTQ+ adults in the U.S. − with some states having noticeably higher percentages of gay and queer residents than others.
Earlier this year, a poll from Gallup found a slightly higher percentage of U.S. adults are LGBTQ+. Overall, multiple polls show that the adult LGBTQ population has been steadily increasing for years.
"Look at the numbers, more people are coming out younger and people are coming out in places where LGBTQ folks have been less out and visible," Cathy Renna, a spokesperson for the National LGBTQ Task Strength, told USA
Adult LGBT Population in the United States
This report provides estimates of the number and percent of the U.S. mature person population that identifies as LGBT, overall, as well as by age. Estimates of LGBT adults at the national, state, and regional levels are included. We rely on BRFSS 2020-2021 facts for these estimates. Pooling multiple years of data provides more stable estimates—particularly at the articulate level.
Combining 2020-2021 BRFSS data, we estimate that 5.5% of U.S. adults name as LGBT. Further, we estimate that there are almost 13.9 million (13,942,200) LGBT adults in the U.S.
Regions and States
LGBT people reside in all regions of the U.S. (Table 2 and Figure 2). Consistent with the overall population in the United States,more LGBT adults live in the South than in any other region. More than half (57.0%) of LGBT people in the U.S. reside in the Midwest (21.1%) and South (35.9%), including 2.9 million in the Midwest and 5.0 million in the South. About one-quarter (24.5%) of LGBT adults reside in the West, approximately 3.4 million people. Less than one in five (18.5%) LGBT adults exist in the Northeast (2.6 million).
The percent of adults who identify as LGBT