Fun Father’s Day facts

First of all, Father’s Day is Sunday. Have you mailed a card yet?

Second of all, here are a bunch of interesting facts from the U.S. Census related to dads.

70.1 million: Estimated number of fathers across the nation.

25.3 million: Number of fathers who were part of married-couple families with children younger than 18 in 2010.

22 percent were raising three or more children younger than 18 (among married-couple family households only).

3 percent lived in someone else’s home.

1.8 million: Number of single fathers in 2010; 15 percent of single parents were men. Nine percent were raising three or more children younger than 18. About 46 percent were divorced, 30 percent were never married, 19 percent were separated, and 6 percent were widowed.

39 percent: annual family income of $50,000 or more.

8,111: The number of men’s clothing stores around the country (as of 2008), a good place to buy dad a tie or shirt.

16,010: The number of hardware stores (as of 2008), a place to buy hammers, wrenches, screwdrivers and other items high on the list of Father’s Day gifts. Additionally, there were 7,009 home centers across the country in 2008.