Georgia Locals Among Most Likely To Be Proposed To This Engagement Season

As the days get shorter this time of year, it’s easy to get a tad gloomy and long for the days of bountiful sun, though the chill of winter has an unexpected side effect on people living in states like Georgia, which has to do with the rate that residents are getting hitched in the year’s colder months.

Occurring between November through Valentine’s Day, there is a period where experts estimate around 40% of all proposals happen. At BetGeorgia.com - where we as always have our ears to the ground for Georgia sports betting news - we wanted to see in what states you are most likely to get proposed to during this engagement season.

Using Google Trends, we combined the search interest scores for “engagement ring” and “proposal ideas." The search period was a 30-day search conducted on November 20, 2024. We then ranked the top 15 states most likely to get proposed to based on the combined search interest scores.

Here’s what we found out nationally and where Georgia ranks when it comes to engagement season.

States Most Likely To Be Proposed To This Engagement Season

Rank	State	Total Score
1	Alaska	200
2	Massachusetts	170
3	Pennsylvania	165
4	New Jersey	162
5	North Carolina	153
6	New York	150
7	West Virginia	96
8	Texas	90
T-9	Georgia	86
T-9	Kentucky	86
11	South Carolina	85
T-12	Florida	84
T-12	Illinois	84
T-12	Virginia	84
15	Rhode Island	83

Where Georgia Ranks Nationally

While the Peach State falls well short of engagement season legends like Alaska (200 points), Massachusetts (170 points) and Pennsylvania (165 points), Georgia’s total score of 86 points did net the region the ninth highest total (alongside Kentucky) nationally.

Georgia finished directly behind eighth ranked Texas, which had 90 points in total, while placing directly ahead of South Carolina’s total score of 85 points, with Florida, Illinois and Virginia all having 84 points apiece to rank in a tie for 12th while Rhode Island closed out the list with 83 points to finish 15th overall.

In between the top three and Georgia, states like New Jersey (162 points), North Carolina (153 points), New York (150 points), West Virginia (96 points) and Texas grabbed spots four through eight across the 50 states and Washington D.C. that were polled for our engagement season survey.

Overall, when it comes to getting hitched, few states can hold a candle to the love-laden locale that is Georgia, with the Peach State ranked among the national leaders in engagement season online, speaking to the fact that love is in the air as the days draw shorter and the temperatures drop ever lower across the country.

USA Today photo by Thomas Bender.

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Christopher Boan

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Christopher Boan has been covering sports and sports betting for more than seven years, including stops at ArizonaSports.com, the Tucson Weekly and the Green Valley News.