$118,200: that was the median net worth of American households in 2019, according to the Census Bureau's 2020 Survey of Income and Progr...

There is great geographic variation in Covid-19 vaccination rates by urban-rural classification, according to an analysis by the CDC. Throug...

State of residence increasingly determines physical and economic wellbeing. Nowhere is this more obvious than in the latest statistics on he...

The nation's population has never grown more slowly. Between July 1, 2020 and July 1, 2021, the U.S. population grew by just 0.1 percent...

The number of home births surged in 2020. The 45,646 babies born at home were 19 percent more than the 2019 number. Babies born at home acco...

The center of population is still in Missouri, the Census Bureau reports. The center's latitude and longitude place it 14.6 miles northe...

A new record was set in 2019. Deaths exceeded births in five states. Never before had so many states experienced negative natural increase, ...

Covid-19 vaccine mandates are becoming more common among the nation's major employers but are still relatively rare among small business...

Nationally, 14.5 percent of adults aged 18 to 64 did not have health insurance in 2019, according to the National Center for Health Statisti...

The results are in. The coronavirus pandemic led to a substantial decline in births in the United States. There were fewer births in the Uni...

April 1, 2020, was undoubtedly one of the worst times to conduct a decennial census. Just a few weeks before Census Day, on March 13, the Un...

The 2000s have not been good for homeownership—so far, at least. The 66.6 percent homeownership rate of 2020 was below the 67.4 percent rate...

Homeschooling has "exploded" during the coronavirus pandemic, according to a report by the Census Bureau. And by homeschooling, th...

For the first time ever, the National Center for Health Statistics has released a report estimating life expectancy by state. The estimates ...

There were 980,000 same-sex couple households in the United States in 2019, according to the Census Bureau's American Community Survey. ...

The workforce is getting older as the Baby-Boom generation ages. Workers aged 55 or older will account for one in four workers by 2029, acco...

In normal times, the employed outnumber those who are not employed among the population aged 16 or older. Nationally, that's still the c...

The worst is still to come. That's what most Americans think about the coronavirus pandemic. The 59 percent majority of the public says ...

Americans everywhere have been badly hurt by the coronavirus pandemic, according to the Census Bureau's Household Pulse Survey. Among al...

Public health officials are becoming increasingly concerned about the looming need for caregiving as the baby-boom generation ages into infi...