Abstract
A tabulation of all marriage licenses issued in New Haven in 1931 according to the distance, measured in blocks, between the residences of the applicants reveals a high degree of propinquity. A comparison of these findings with those of Bossard in a similar study in Philadelphia the same year discloses a higher degree of propinquity in the shorter distance ranges in the latter city, but an almost identical pattern in the two cities when larger units of comparison are used. A further tabulation of the New Haven data according to natural areas suggests that the main explanation of residential propinquity as a factor in marriage selection is to be found in the ecological fact of segregation.
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