PROJECT 24Truth · Accountability · Standards · Service
THE REALITY CHECKACS 2024 demographic data · Separate CDC height reference.

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Project 24 · Your standards. A closer look.

The Reality
Check.

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Let’s look at the whole picture.

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LET’S BE HONEST.

The height.
The paycheck.
The way they show up.

We can put numbers to some of that. The rest shows up in how we treat each other. Let’s keep the two separate.

No profiles. No swiping. No telling you to settle.
Start with your own answers, or explore:

Who are you hoping to meet?

Start with what matters to you. Nobody gets graded here.

I'm interested in

The Census source records sex as male or female. These source categories do not describe every gender identity, sexual orientation or mutual attraction.

Age range

National or broad Census region; not a city, ZIP code or dating radius.

Unmarried is not the same as unpartnered, available or interested in dating. Separated respondents are not included in “unmarried.”

Not included in the percentage. Marital status cannot tell us who is dating or wants commitment.

This is demographic research, not a dating directory. It does not search dating apps, find people, or tell you who would be attracted to you.
Step 1 of 3 · Your answers stay in this tab.
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Say what you want.

Choose your requirements and personal preferences. You don't have to defend them here.

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See how filters combine.

The Census engine calculates requirements together. It does not multiply unrelated Census, CDC and dating-survey percentages.

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Explore. Don't judge.

Change a preference and compare. A narrower group does not mean your standards are wrong.

A few honest answers

Before we make the number
mean more than it does.

Is this my chance of finding a relationship?

No. It describes a demographic combination. It does not tell us who is dating, who is interested in you, or how two people would treat each other.

Why doesn’t every answer change the percentage?

The Census records can support age, income, education and marital status together. Height comes from a different survey. Other answers stay in your checklist rather than becoming unsupported deductions.

Does a small percentage mean my standards are wrong?

No. A smaller estimated group is not a reason to accept dishonesty, neglect, or a relationship you do not want. Use the comparisons to think—not to judge yourself or anybody else.

What happens to my answers?

This calculator has no account, email gate, or form submission. Your answers stay in this tab unless you choose to save or copy them. On the website, ordinary requests load the public data for your selected group and region; hosting logs may record those requests. No analytics is included in this build.

Data & honesty.

No fictional population data. This page uses owner-prepared 2024 Census data when supplied. Without that dataset, no new demographic percentages are calculated. Height stays separate. The saved example is read-only.

What is actually included

Included now: CDC/NCHS published height reference, NHANES August 2021–August 2023, Table 7 in Series 3 No. 50 (June 2025). The table was visually checked against the official publication. Demographic source: 2024 ACS 1-year PUMS person records, containing PWGTP and all 80 replicate weights. No generated or invented population records are supplied.

Supported Census source and geography

The owner prepares the supported official person files once, outside this public page. National data must include both psam_pusa.csv and psam_pusb.csv. The original importer checks year, fields, source geography and ZIP CRC32 integrity. The private publisher validates the snapshot totals and, for this national source, compares the saved example with the owner’s prior summary. These checks do not constitute an independent audit of every source record.

National data supports four broad regions. A state import is labeled only as that state and disables region selection. Puerto Rico is excluded. There is no city, ZIP-code or distance-radius estimate. The denominator is all represented adults with reported ages 18–85 in the chosen source sex group and geography, including institutional and other group-quarter residents present in ACS. Reported age and income may be disclosure-protected or top-coded by Census.

Definitions that matter

Sex: Census SEX=1/2; labels “men” and “women” are shorthand for those source categories, not comprehensive gender identities or attraction. Unmarried: MAR=2,3,5 (widowed, divorced, never married); separated respondents (MAR=4) are excluded. Being unmarried does not establish being unpartnered, available or interested. Income: total personal income PINCP × ADJINC/1,000,000 in 2024 dollars, not household income, net worth or salary alone. A zero minimum means no income restriction, including negative and zero values. The slider supports exact $5,000 thresholds only.

Education: some college/associate or higher is SCHL≥18; bachelor’s or higher ≥21; graduate ≥22. Age, income, education and marital status are tested jointly on the same records. “No children” is NOT inferred from household composition. Height, body type, faith, smoking, drinking, hobbies, future children, intentions and character are not numerical filters in the Census estimate.

Weighting and uncertainty

Estimated share = sum(PWGTP for matching records) ÷ sum(PWGTP for baseline records) × 100.

Exact cells retain their unweighted sample count, total person weight, and all 80 summed replicate weights. Income binning is exact for the available slider thresholds. No survey records are independently resampled and no separate survey percentages are multiplied. For each replicate, the numerator and denominator are recalculated. Standard error = √[(4/80) × Σ(replicate estimate − main estimate)²]. A 90% interval uses ±1.645 × standard error, bounded to 0–100%. Count margins of error use the same replicate method. Percentages are calculated before display rounding.

Project 24 display rules, not Census publication standards: at least 30 matching records, at least 100 baseline records, valid replicate denominators, and relative standard error no more than 30%. A nontrivial estimate with zero or invalid calculated uncertainty is withheld. Empty sample cells do not establish zero population. A structural baseline comparison may correctly be exactly 100%. Intervals describe sampling uncertainty, not every source of measurement, nonresponse, disclosure-protection or model error. Repeated interactive comparisons are exploratory and do not carry simultaneous confidence guarantees.

Interpreting results

This is an estimated demographic share, NOT the chance of finding love or a count of currently eligible dates. Sexual orientation, mutual attraction, partnership outside marriage, interest in dating and relationship quality are not modeled. Funnel intermediate changes depend on filter order; the final estimate does not. One-at-a-time comparisons keep the same denominator. Project 24 does not advise changing standards from a percentage alone.

Why height is separate

NHANES has different respondents and a different target population from ACS. The height panel reproduces weighted population mean and percentile estimates and the unweighted measurement sample count from the published table. Its selected age band is independent of the Census age range. The app compares an entered height to published percentile cut points without interpolating an exact probability or constructing a joint income-height estimate. No CDC reference is treated as a measurement of athleticism, attractiveness or body type.

Official sources

Census · 2024 PUMS documentation ↗
2024 data dictionary ↗
2024 PUMS accuracy and replicate-weight formulas ↗
CDC/NCHS height report · Table 7 ↗

Privacy, updates and testing status

No accounts, cookies, local storage, tracking, analytics or geolocation are included in this build. Your answers are not sent as a form and remain in this tab unless you deliberately save or copy a summary. The hosted edition requests a public dataset file for your selected sex group and broad region; hosting providers may record ordinary requests, file paths and IP addresses. Those requests do not include your age, income or personal-checklist answers. Calculations run in a browser worker. “Share the tool” shares only the public page link, never your answers or result. External source and resource links open third-party sites. The offline data-loaded test edition makes no data requests.

This is a 2024 source snapshot, not live dating-market data. The complete-site publisher packages the owner’s saved source data outside this visitor page. Interface tests and saved-example consistency checks do not authenticate every source record. The complete national dataset and physical-phone performance still require review before launch. This is not an independently peer-reviewed statistical product.

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