You don't have to wait for 2020 census results to know the big trends of the past decade. That's because demographer William H. Frey...

Over the past century, James has been the number-one most popular boy's name, according to the Social Security Administration. Between 1...

The nation's teenagers are driving less than they once did. Only 50 percent of 16-to-17-year-olds drive on an average day, according to ...

Lists, rankings, and reviews. The end of a decade brings a torrent of retrospective. If you're tired of looking back, then let's loo...

We await the April 1, 2020 census datapoint, but so far it looks like the 2010s will go down in U.S. history as the decade with the slowest ...

For a full decade, median household income struggled to return to the pre-Great Recession peak of $62,700 in 2007 (in 2018 dollars). It fina...

Two years ago Demo Memo presented 10 vital demographic questions  and asked how many answers to these questions we would have once we had mo...

Two years ago Demo Memo presented  10 vital demographic questions and asked how many answers to these questions we would have once we had m...

This is Demo Memo's 3,000th blog post. I know this because demographers like to count things. In the 12 years Demo Memo has been online,...

When the white working class sneezes, America catches a cold. The Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis examines what may be ailing America in a...

If your customers are people who hunt, fish, or watch birds and other wildlife, you're in luck. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service provi...

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

Technological change turns the novel into the essential. Such is the case with cell phones, according to a Gallup analysis of cell phone ado...

Ride sharing has exploded since Uber rolled out in 2011. According to the Consumer Expenditure Survey, average household spending on what th...

The 21st century has been a wild ride so far, and it has only just begun. The speed with which events are unfolding is creating turmoil and ...

The Census Bureau thinks long and hard before tinkering with the all-important Current Population Survey Annual Social and Economic Suppleme...

We live in interesting times, and these are the trends that make our times so interesting. Here are the remaining five of the Top 10 Trends ...

We live in interesting times, and these are the trends that make our times so interesting. Here are five of the Top 10 Trends of 2013 (see t...