Only 31 percent of American adults live in a household with a landline phone, according to the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) ...

At least one thing is back to normal: food-away-from-home spending has returned to its top position in the food chain. With Covid receding, ...

More than 100 million Americans (44 percent of adults) know someone who is transgender (their gender differs from their sex assigned at birt...

Americans are less inclined to marry these days. The pandemic didn't help matters. The marriage rate fell to 5.1 marriages per 1,000 pop...

Only 21 percent of Americans aged 18 or older read a newspaper every day, according to the 2021 General Social Survey. Readership has plumme...

In the 2020-21 school year, 145 elementary/middle/secondary schools in the United States experienced a school shooting—a record high. Not on...

A substantial 34 percent of the American public say the coronavirus pandemic is over, according to a recent Gallup survey. Of course, Republ...

Between 2020 and 2021, the first year of the pandemic, the population of the nation's 798 large cities (defined as incorporated places w...

How many Americans feel unsafe walking because of crime? That question was included in the 2020 National Health Interview Survey along with ...

The percentage of male high school graduates who enroll in college soon after graduating from high school fell to the lowest level in almost...

Imagine living within an hour's drive of your entire extended family—meaning "children, parents, grandparents, grandchildren, broth...

The political affiliations of the American public have not changed much in decades. According to the 2021 General Social Survey, 44 percent ...

Gun ownership is common in the United States. Overall, 40 percent of Americans say they or someone in their household owns a gun, according ...

The federal government has been tracking computer and internet use in the United States since the 1990s—the beginning of the internet era fo...