Overall, 65.1 percent of households owned their home in the 1st quarter of 2012, according to the Census Bureau. The homeownership rate fell...

Homeownership rate of householders aged 30 to 34, first quarter 2012: 48.3% The 1st quarter homeownership rate of householders aged 3...

Thirty percent of American workers regularly sleep for 6 or fewer hours per 24-hour period, according to the CDC. The percentage is highest ...

Average age of males participating in selected sports... Skateboarding: 17.1  Basketball: 23.9 Running: 29.4 Bicycling: 30.6 Work...

Only 38 percent of Americans who are not yet retired expect to have enough money to live comfortably in retirement, according to a Gallup po...

After months of dribbling out, state-by-state, detailed race data from the 2010 census, the Census Bureau finally gave it up today with a mo...

Only 53 percent of homeowners say their home is worth more today than when they bought it, down from 92 percent in 2006. Source: Gallup, U...

Everyone is wondering what the nation's young adults are up to as many postpone marriage, delay parenthood, and move back in with their ...

Today the Census Bureau released the 2010 Census Brief on the nation's 116.7 million households. These are some of the most important fi...

Because of the risk of making less than a high school graduate after a lifetime of work. That is the finding of a new study by the Federal R...

Percentage of Americans who say the following statements describe them very well or completely... I am concerned about the planet we are l...

Percentage of 18-to-34-year-olds who say "being successful in a high-paying career or profession" is very important or one of the ...

Houses are larger than they used to be and this is a long-term problem for energy consumption, says the Energy Information Administration in...

Among young adults who graduated from high school in 2011, more than one in four (26.7 percent) are looking for a job. This stunningly high ...

The college enrollment rate of recent high school graduates is down slightly from the all-time high of 70.1 percent set in 2009, according t...

The Great Recession idled millions of men (and women). The American Time Use Survey collects information on what the average American did ye...

The nation's 49 million homeowners with a mortgage outnumber homeowners without a mortgage (30 million) and renters (42 million). Their ...

Birth rates for teenagers are at an historic low, as this blog reported previously . One factor behind the decline is the fact that teens to...

Average annual household spending on movie, theater, and amusement park tickets... Householders under age 25: $79.15 Householders aged 65...

More than one in four Americans aged 18 or older does not have a credit card, according to a survey by AARP. Younger adults are more than tw...