Percentage of Americans who think home air conditioning is a necessity, not a luxury they could do without: 1996: 51% 2006: 70% Sou...

Move over Academy Awards, Grammies, Emmys, Tony Awards, Nobel Prizes, and Time Magazine Man of the Year. Make room for the Demographic Trend...

Back in the old days, when I was just a kid pretending to be a demographer (the fire ant Census was particularly difficult, by the way), the...

Percentage of U.S. households with no adults who speak fluent English: 3 Source: Census Bureau

For the life of me, I will never understand why television advertisers are so fixated on the 18-to-49 demographic. This morning, as I peruse...

If you draw two lines—one running North&#45South, the other East&#45West—so that each divides the population in half, the point of i...

Median age of the U.S. population by race and Hispanic origin: (the median is the age at which half are older and half are younger) White no...

Take a guess: Among the 50 states, which one ranks first in the proportion of (native-born) residents who were born in the state? The surpri...

Percentage of people aged 18 to 65 who have not been to a doctor or other health care professional in the past year, by health insurance sta...

Why don't Americans feel as good as they once did? The percentage of adults aged 18 or older who say they are in "excellent" o...

Percentage of children in 4th through 8th grade who take part in organized activities (not including after-school programs) by family income...

The New York Times reports today that married couples are now a minority of households. The Times' analysis of the Census Bureau's ...

Percentage of homeowners with no public transportation available in their area: 50 percent. Source: Bureau of the Census, 2005 American Hou...

According to a government report, 10.5 million unauthorized immigrants were living in the U.S. in 2005, up from 8.5 million in 2000—a 24 pe...

Percent moving between 2004 and 2005... All ages: 14 percent Aged 20 to 24: 30 percent Aged 62 to 64: 6 percent Percent moving out of sta...

Eighty-two percent of Americans say they have been annoyed by the cell phone use of others in public places, according to a survey by the P...

Does religious belief influence sexual attitudes and behavior? Most would call the question a no brainer--of course it does! But human natur...

Households with two or more earners, by household income quintile: lowest quintile (with incomes below $19,178): 5 percent highest quintil...

Recently, the FBI released preliminary numbers from its 2005 Uniform Crime Reporting Program . According to the findings, violent crime in t...

Every now and then someone does a study that tells it like it is. This is the case with "Troubles in America: A Study of Negative Life ...