Dating market playground

Adjust your city's demographics to see how they affect dating outcomes. Default values match the SF Bay Area from the analysis.

Share of adults who are single.
Men Women
Newcomers (% of base)
Newcomer Percentile
90 = 10%, 50 = average
Newcomer Spread (SD)
0.7 = concentrated, 1.0 = normal

X-axis: global desirability z-score (standard deviations from the worldwide average). Hover for a tooltip showing what this score means as a percentile (relative to the same global reference), and the M:F ratio at this desirability level. Click to lock the tooltip in place.

Population distributions (count-scaled)

Total ratio (M:F): -
Singles ratio (M:F): -

Hover to see how a given '1-in-N' rarity level maps to the typical partner rarity; click to lock the tooltip.

Partner rarity multiplier vs global baseline

Values >1 mean better matches than baseline, <1 mean worse matches