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By Erin Petenko | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com
on January 10, 2017 at 8:16 AM, updated January 10, 2017 at 4:47 PM
EDITOR’S NOTE: This story has been updated to reflect the correct percent reduction of teen births between the 2006-2010 Census and the 2011-2015 Census.
Young people are waiting longer to settle down, and some are not doing it at all.
When they do, they are having children at a slower rate than their predecessors, according to data from the 2011-2015 American Community Survey snapshot.
The median age of first marriage in New Jersey has increased about a year since the 2006-2010 survey. At the same time, the number of male and female residents who have never been married has increased 5 percent.
Large cities such as New Brunswick, Camden and Newark have some of the highest percentages of never-married residents.
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