The average firefighter divorce rate is 13.9%.
Firefighter divorce rates can be broken down by gender.
The study had 1,456 participants, of which:
- 1,407 were males
- 49 were females
Female firefighter divorce rates are 40%.
Male firefighter divorce rates are 19.6%.
Of the 1,456 total firefighters, 1,031 had been married.
Of the 1,031 firefighters that had been married, 143 had been divorced.
That tells us the firefighter divorce rate is 13.9%.
These numbers indicate how many firefighters have EVER been divorced.
The following tells us how many firefighters are CURRENTLY divorced.
Meaning they have not remarried after the marriage ends.
Female firefighters that are currently divorced were 32.1%.
Male firefighters that are currently divorced were 11.8%.
The national average of the general population that were currently divorced was:
- 10.1% for married women
- 9.4% for married men
The female firefighter’s likelihood of divorce is 3x higher than the general population.