Statistics
Online dating statistics
How people meet now, what goes wrong online and why safety matters. Every figure links to its source.
Figures checked against each source on November 12, 2026.
- No. 1Meeting online became the most common way US couples meet, ahead of meeting through friends.Stanford, PNAS, 2019
- 52%of US online daters think they have come across a scammer on a dating site or app.Pew Research Center, 2023
- $1.49 billionreported lost to romance scams in the US in 2025, across 70,588 reports.Federal Trade Commission, 2025
- 1 in 2US adults have reported feeling lonely.US Surgeon General, 2023
- 3 in 103 in 10 US adults have used a dating site or app.Pew Research Center, 2022
- 56%56% of women under 50 who use dating apps have been sent unwanted sexually explicit content.Pew Research Center, 2022
Romance scams cost people in the US about $47 every second, counting reported losses only. Estimate from $1.49 billion reported to the FTC in 2025.
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