(NEXSTAR) – People are getting married older. Millennials don't want to follow in their parents' footsteps. Maybe it's too expensive to get married. Maybe it's too expensive to get divorced.

Whatever the reason may be, divorce is growing less and less common. Between 2012 and 2022, the divorce rate declined by 28%, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.

However, 14 states are bucking the trend, where the divorce rate is still "significantly higher" than the national average.

To determine this, the Census Bureau looked at the results of its annual demographics survey, the American Community Survey, in 2022. It found the national divorce rate was 7.1 new divorces for every 1,000 women.

Meanwhile, in Arkansas, the state with the highest divorce rate, about 12 women per 1,000 filed for divor

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