According to Gallup, 5 percent of American adults consider themselves to be vegetarians, largely unchanged from the 6 percent who identified as vegetarians in 1999 and 2001. A smaller two percent say they are vegans.

Almost all segments of the U.S. population have similar percentages of vegetarians, according to the poll, suggesting that most stereotypes of who is and is not the typical vegetarian in American society have little basis in fact.

The biggest distinction seems to come in terms of marital status. Unmarried adults are more than twice as likely as married adults to be vegetarians. Vegetarianism appears to be slightly more prevalent among women than among men, and among those who are older than among younger adults, but these are not big differences.

According to Gallup, vegetarianism in the U.S. remains quite uncommon and a lifestyle that is neither growing nor waning in popularity.

Information comes from Gallup’s July 9-12 Consumption Habits survey.