Forty percent of Americans are very religious, according to a measure of religiosity devised by Gallup, which deems people as very religious...

The Great Recession triggered a new baby bust, with the number of births in the U.S. falling 8.4 percent between 2007 and 2011. Births fell ...

Percentage of Americans aged 18 or older who find life exciting... 2012: 53% 2000: 47% 1990: 45% Source: Survey Documentation and Anal...

Here's something new: mid-year updates of household spending! The Bureau of Labor Statistics has released the first of what will be an...

Attitudes toward same-sex parenting mirror those toward same-sex marriage, according to the 2012 General Social Survey. Most millennials are...

Percentage of households with zero or negative net worth in 2011, by age of householder... Total households: 18% Under age 35: 32% Aged ...

Median household income fell 1.1 percent between January and February 2013, according to the latest monthly update from Sentier Research. Th...

Support for gay marriage hovers just below the 50 percent mark, according to the 2012 General Social Survey. Forty-nine percent of Americans...

Nearly half of Americans aged 18 or older now favor the legalization of marijuana. Over the past four decades, support has waxed and waned i...

Percentage of high school students who say they were physically hurt on purpose by their boyfriend/girlfriend during the past 12 months... ...

One of the most significant findings that emerges from the Census Bureau's 2011 update of household debt is this: American households hi...

First, a thank you to the Census Bureau for providing updated statistics on household wealth. In these economically trying times, it is more...

Percentage of occupied housing units with a swimming pool on the property: 16%. Source: Census Bureau, 2011 American Housing Survey

Is obesity linked to poverty? Not all that much. The National Center for Health Statistics measures the height and weight of a representativ...

Today's high school students are as likely to smoke marijuana as they are to smoke cigarettes. Among 12th graders, 25 percent have smoke...

Most workers aged 55 or older have little savings, according to the 2013 Retirement Confidence Survey. More than one-third has less than $10...

This is the scene of destruction wrought by the Internet: television, radio, and newspapers are declining as sources of news, while the Inte...

Non-Hispanic white men's share of total public: 32% Non-Hispanic white men's share of gun owners: 61% Source: Pew Research Center...

Among 18-to-24-year-olds, the percentage who say they have no religious affiliation more than tripled between 1990 and 2012--climbing from 1...

Overall, 42 percent of Americans aged 18 or older worry about becoming a victim of gun violence. The percentage who worry about becoming a v...