Doncaster ranks among England’s highest for unmarried couples raising children

Doncaster is among the places where raising children outside marriage is most common, according to new analysis of Census data.
The city ranks third out of 53 British city areas examined by Premier Carriage Wedding Cars, with 34.49% of couple-family households with dependent children headed by unmarried, cohabiting partners.
In Doncaster, there were 8,103 cohabiting couple households with dependent children, compared with 15,393 married or civil-partnered couple households. That means more than one in three qualifying couple households in the city were headed by unmarried partners.
The figure places Doncaster ahead of several other Yorkshire cities. Wakefield ranks seventh with 32.78%, while Leeds is 29th on 25.15% and York 39th with 22.37%.
Nationally, Hull tops the list at 40.84%, followed by Lincoln on 34.59%. Doncaster is just behind Lincoln by 0.10 percentage points and ahead of Sunderland, which records 33.55%, and Stoke-on-Trent at 33.45%.
The top 10 cities with the highest proportions of cohabiting couples raising dependent children are Hull, Lincoln, Doncaster, Sunderland, Stoke-on-Trent, Norwich, Wakefield, Wrexham, Dundee and Plymouth.