$LONELY
Lonely adults in the US
16,349,622
adults in Sep 2026
16,349,622 adults in Sep 2026. Not scored yet: the baseline is still filling.
From Mar 2026 to Sep 2026.
How it is counted
NormalNone
Highest22,640,959Jul 2026
Unusual months0
- Counts
- US adults who say they feel lonely always or usually, as the Census Bureau's Household Trends and Outlook Pulse Survey estimates it. One number per survey cycle that asks the question, keyed by the month the cycle was fielded. The March 2026 table reports always and usually apart and they are added here. The July 2026 table reports them together.
- Why it is here
- Loneliness does not show up in a jobs report. The Census Bureau asks about it anyway. This is the answer.
- Terms
- US government work, public domain. The Census Bureau marks the series experimental.
- Cadence
- A few times a year. A table lands about seven weeks after the survey is fielded. Newest complete month Sep 2026. Read Nov 13, 06:40 UTC.
- Baseline
- The prior 24 months, 12 needed.
Who pays and who collects
Who pays
$3.41B
Match Group payers (Tinder, Hinge and others)
Direct revenue from paying users, worldwide, year to Dec 31 2025. Source
- $1.86BTinder payersTinder direct revenue from paying users, year to Dec 31 2025. Source
- $690.9MHinge payersHinge direct revenue from paying users, year to Dec 31 2025. Source
- 3.67M paying users at $21.64 a monthBumble and Badoo paying usersPaying users and average revenue per paying user, year to Dec 31 2025. Source
- $366.3MGrindr paying usersDirect revenue from subscriptions and add-ons, year to Dec 31 2025. Source
- $73.6MAdvertisers on GrindrIndirect revenue, paid by advertisers, year to Dec 31 2025. Source
The index counts US adults and these revenues are worldwide, from people who may or may not be lonely. No companion AI company on the list publishes revenue in a filing, so none is shown here.
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16,349,622 US adults said they feel lonely always or usually in a Census Bureau survey fielded in Sep 2026, according to Census figures kept by Tickerz.
Asked often
- How many Americans are lonely?
- 16,349,622 adults in the United States said they feel lonely always or usually in the Census Bureau's Household Trends and Outlook Pulse Survey fielded in Sep 2026.
- Where does the $LONELY number come from?
- Tickerz reads it from US Census Bureau, Household Trends and Outlook Pulse Survey, Health Table 3a. A few times a year. A table lands about seven weeks after the survey is fielded. Each number is kept as it was first published, with a timestamped proof, and any later revision is shown beside it.
- Can I download the $LONELY data?
- Yes, free and with no key: the full history as JSON at https://tickerz.com/api/indices/lonely and every period as CSV at https://tickerz.com/api/indices/lonely/history.csv.
List it
No listing kit for $LONELY yet. A kit sets its strikes from 14 published numbers. This index publishes one a month and has none yet.
Resolution
- Index
- $LONELY Lonely adults in the US. Rulebook v0.2, 2026-10-04.
- Prints
- A few times a year. A table lands about seven weeks after the survey is fielded. The newest complete month is on the record after the daily proof at 12:40 UTC.
- As first published
Sep 2026 is not timestamped yet. The daily proof at 12:40 UTC adds it.
The number as first published is final for settlement. A revision by the source is shown beside it and never replaces it.
- Fallback
- A cycle stays open until its table is published, about seven weeks after it is fielded. A cycle that does not ask the question has no number. A cycle that is never published is void.
- Precision
- Whole adults, the survey's weighted estimate, as the table prints the Total row.
- Cost to move
- Not practical. Moving a cycle means changing answers to a Census Bureau survey.
- Grade
- reference. A federal survey estimate anyone can read. The Census Bureau marks it experimental and changed the table between the two 2026 cycles, so the cycles may not compare cleanly.
- For a rulebook
- Settle on the number Tickerz first recorded for $LONELY for the month named in the contract, published at tickerz.com/x/lonely and in GET /api/indices/lonely, timestamped daily in Bitcoin with OpenTimestamps.
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- Proof
- Every reading is timestamped in Bitcoin once a day, so nobody can change it later. The newest proof covers Nov 12, in Bitcoin block 975,557.Proof fileLive feedHow it works
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