The median age at first marriage set another record in 2014, climbing to 29.3 years for men and 27.0 years for women. Here is the trend for ...

Homeownership rate of householders aged 30 to 34, fourth quarter 2014: 47.4% The homeownership rate of households headed by people...

Overall, 28 percent of American households include children under age 18 and a larger 39 percent include children of any age. By generation,...

Good news: Median household income climbed to $54,417 in December 2014, according to Sentier Research—$738 more than the November median, a...

Percent distribution of Americans aged 16 or older in the labor force by generation... iGeneration: 2.8% Millennials: 36.7% Generation X...

In 2013, the average household spent almost as much on digital book readers ($30.18) as it did on books ($32.53). Since 2000, average househ...

Workers today feel more insecure about their jobs than their counterparts a generation ago, according to an analysis of data in the Monthly ...

Nearly 35 million Americans aged 25 or older have "some college" but no degree. The "some college" group, in fact, is th...

Gasoline is one of the largest household expenses. How large? According to the Consumer Expenditure Survey , the average household spent $2,...

Among people aged 50 to 64, fewer than one in four feels financially secure. These are the responses of a representative sample of the age g...

Prescription drugs are a large and growing share of health care spending. That explains why the castle-like edifices of Walgreens, CVS, Rite...

The average age of American women giving birth for the first time climbed to 26.0 in 2013, up from 25.8 in 2012 and one full year older than...

American consumers, businesses, and governments spent $1.4 trillion on food and beverages in 2013. Almost half that spending was devoted to ...

Tuesday is the least happy day of the week, according to a Gallup Survey. On an average Tuesday in 2014, only 44 percent of Americans report...

The 58 percent majority of American adults use Facebook, according to a survey by Pew Research Center. Among online adults, the figure is 71...

The American public is divided in its attitude toward climate change... 46% believe the earth's climate is getting warmer due to huma...

This is one of those winters. The percentage of adults who report being "sick with a cold yesterday" reached an all-time high of 1...

The rate of natural increase (births minus deaths) varies greatly by state. Overall in the United States, there were 3,957,577 births and 2,...

The boomerang phenomenon is real. By age 27, most young adults have returned to their parental home for a period of time or never managed to...

If you're a worker who gets paid by the hour, chances are you don't know your work schedule more than a week in advance. That's ...