Two-thirds of the nation's nonmetropolitan counties lost population between 2010 and 2014, according to the USDA's Economic Research...

Percentage of Americans who use the Internet in 2015 (and in 2000), by age... Total adults: 84% (52%) Aged 18-29: 96% (70%) Aged 30-49: ...

From 2009 to 2014, percent change in number of births in... United States:  -3.5% North Dakota: 26.2% Source: National Center for Healt...

The U.S. population grew by 9.5 million between 2010 and 2014, according to the Census Bureau. Non-Hispanic Whites accounted for just 5 perc...

In the last half of 2014, Americans crossed a threshold. The plurality of households now has only cell phones, surpassing for the first time...

The Affordable Care Act is making a difference, according to data from the National Center for Health Statistics. The percentage of American...

Older Americans give a lot of money to their children and grandchildren—enough to "be considered a major expenditure category," ac...

Not many, thanks to Medicaid. That's because low-income women become eligible for Medicaid when they become pregnant. With the average h...

The number of births ticked up in 2014, rising by 1 percent in the past year. This was the first increase since 2007, according to the Natio...

The annual number of births in the United States increased in 2014, according to the National Center for Health Statistics. The 3,985,924 ba...

Residents of the nation's major metropolitan areas live near fewer jobs than they did in 2000, according to a study by the Brookings Ins...

Among the nation's 20 million preschoolers, 60 percent participate in at least one weekly nonparental care arrangement—that's 13 mil...

The median age of the nation's employed was 42.3 in 2014, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Some occupations have much older ...

The nation's homeownership rate will fall from 65.1 percent in 2010 to to 61.3 percent in 2030, according to a study by the Urban Instit...

Eighty-eight percent of Americans know people who are gay or lesbian, according to a Pew Research Center survey, with about the same percent...

"How ya gonna keep 'em down on the farm after they've seen Paree?" That question, posed in song lyrics nearly a century ag...

More than half the nation's population growth since 2000 has occurred in drought-stricken areas of the United States, according to a stu...

The 72 percent majority of Americans believe moral values in the U.S. are getting worse, according to Gallup . But it's not hard to find...

The 51 percent majority of the nation's homeowners are aged 55 or older, according to the Census Bureau, up from 43 percent in 2006...  ...

Older Americans are the only segment of the population that did not lose ground during the Great Recession. The median income of households ...