Rural areas have been hit hard by the opioid epidemic. The injury is, in part, self-inflicted. Primary care physicians in rural areas are mo...

Forty percent of the nation's 3,000-plus counties have experienced more deaths than births since 2010, according to the Census Bureau...

The nation's most urban counties continue to grow faster than any other county type according to the Census Bureau's 2017 county pop...

Yet another study has found a widening health gap between rural and urban areas. In an analysis of suicide rates by urban status over the pa...

Asians, Blacks, Hispanics, and other minorities accounted for 38 percent of the total U.S. population in 2015. Minorities are the majority i...

With the Affordable Care Act and expanded access to health care services under threat, the CDC has released a report suggesting any erosion ...

Once upon a time, the preferences of Ohio's voters might have been predictive of election results. Not this time. Ohio's demographic...

Are you in the upper, middle, or lower class in your metropolitan area? You can find out with this nifty calculator created by Pew Research ...

The five metropolitan areas with the lowest rate of commuting to work by automobile and their second most common mode of commute... 1. New...

Residents of the nation's major metropolitan areas live near fewer jobs than they did in 2000, according to a study by the Brookings Ins...

The 2013 American Housing Survey includes a set of questions about household emergency preparedness. Some of the questions are about pets—wh...

In a first-of-a-kind analysis, the Urban Institute examines how debt varies by state and metropolitan area. The researchers examined 2013 cr...

There's a demographic drama unfolding. See it here , in the Census Bureau's Story Maps—two interactive maps of population trends by ...

This one is for all you March Madness fans who also happen to be armchair demographers: Population Bracketology , brought to you by the Cens...

Metropolitan areas, particularly urban cores, are the powerhouses of the post-Great Recession era. In the past year, 77 percent of the natio...

Fully 61 million Americans aged 5 or older speak a language other than English at home—a substantial 21 percent of the population. A new Cen...

The more urban the county, the greater the population growth during the 2010-to-2012 time period, according to  my analysis  of the Census B...

Fascinating article in the New York Times : In Climbing Income Ladder, Location Matters . The article describes a study  that maps intergene...

Among the nation's 75 largest metropolitan areas, rental vacancy rates are highest in Orlando, Florida. In 2012, 18.5 percent of rental ...

The nation's urban areas are growing, and rural areas are losing people. This is one of the distinguishing characteristics of the post-G...