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Dating at 50 and up: Older Americans’ experiences with online dating. The dating world can look very different for older Americans than for younger ones – whether it’s returning after a long period of not dating or trying to work romance into established routines. Some older adults are turning to online dating to find these connections, according to a Pew Research Center survey conducted July 5-17, 2022.

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Here are seven findings about online dating for Americans ages 50 and older. Pew Research Center conducted this analysis to understand how Americans ages 50 and older experience dating sites and apps and their views of online dating generally. We surveyed 6,034 U.S. adults ages 18 and older from July 5 to 17, 2022. This included 4,996 respondents from the Center’s American Trends Panel (ATP), an online survey panel that is recruited through national, random sampling of residential addresses. This way nearly all U.S. adults have a chance of selection. It also included an oversample of 1,038 respondents from Ipsos’ KnowledgePanel. The survey is weighted to be representative of the U.S. adult population by gender, race, ethnicity, partisan affiliation, education and other categories. Read more about the ATP’s methodology. Here are the questions used for this analysis, along with responses, and its methodology. Terminology. Online dating users and online daters are used interchangeably throughout this analysis to refer to those who have ever used a dating site or app. One-in-six Americans ages 50 and older (17%) say they have ever used a dating site or app. That’s similar to the share who said this the last time the Center asked about it in 2019. About a quarter of those in their 50s (23%) say they have ever used online dating platforms, compared with 14% of adults in their 60s and 12% of those in their 70s and older. However, just 3% of adults 50 and older currently use online dating platforms or have used them within the last year, compared with 15% of those under 50. Among adults 50 and older who are partnered – that is, married, living with a partner or in a committed romantic relationship – 6% say they met their significant other through online dating. The dating sites and apps people use vary widely by age. Online dating users who are 50 and older are far less likely than those under 50 to say they ever use Tinder (11% vs. 59%). By contrast, older users are more likely to have used Match (50% vs. 24%). Still, age differences exist among those 50 and older. Some 19% of online daters ages 50 to 59 say they’ve used Tinder, compared with 6% of those 60 to 69 and just 1% of those 70 and older. Online dating users in their 50s are also more likely than their older counterparts to say they’ve used OkCupid and Bumble. They are about as likely as those in their 60s, and more likely than those 70 and older, to have used Match. There are no significant differences in the use of eharmony, Hinge, Grindr or HER among online daters 50 and older. Older adults cite various reasons why they have online dated in the past year. About half of adults 50 and older who have dated online in the past year cite meeting a long-term partner or spouse as a major reason. Some 36% of older adults who have used these platforms recently also cite wanting to date casually as a major reason. Similar shares of older online daters also say this about making friends (30%) or having casual sex (22%). Younger users are just as likely as older adults to cite each of these reasons for using online dating platforms in the past year. Older women are the most likely to describe their online dating experiences as negative. Overall, Americans who have ever used a dating site or app are somewhat divided on whether it’s been a positive or negative experience. Roughly half (53%) say they have had a somewhat or very positive experience, while a slightly smaller share (46%) say their experience has been somewhat or very negative. There are also differences by age and gender. Women 50 and older who have used online dating platforms are more likely than their male counterparts in the same age group to say their experiences have been negative (57% vs. 38%). In contrast, women ages 18 to 49 who have used online dating platforms are about as likely as men of the same age to say their experiences have been negative (48% vs. 43%). Older men are the most likely to have paid to use a dating site or app.













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