When deciding how important mobile is to e-commerce efforts, companies might think it's about as important as desktop sites. After all, ...

If you're frustrated over the rising cost of necessities, these numbers should cheer you up. Some of the items we value most highly are ...

The number of renter-occupied homes grew by more than 1.3 million in the past year, according to the Census Bureau's Housing Vacancy Sur...

Homeownership rate of householders aged 30 to 34, third quarter 2015: 46.8% The homeownership rate of households headed by people ...

A substantial 13 percent of Americans under age 65 now have health insurance purchased directly from private health insurance companies, tha...

Median household income in September 2015 stood at $56,279, according to Sentier Research—not significantly different from the August media...

Fully 58 percent of Americans support the legalization of marijuana, according to a Gallup survey. This is up from just 33 percent who favor...

That's the question asked by Census Bureau researchers in a  Research Matters blog  post. With the economy picking up steam, builders an...

College enrollment fell for the third year in a row in 2014, according to the Census Bureau's Current Population Survey. Only 19.2 milli...

Book reading is down slightly from what it used to be, reports Pew Research Center, with print books accounting for all of the decline. Seve...

Most smokers have tried to quit smoking in the past year, according to the CDC. Among current and former smokers in 2013, fully 66 percent h...

There's a reason why Americans are nostalgic for small-town life. The largest share of Americans (one in three) say that's where the...

Among men and women aged 65 who have purchased long-term care insurance, more than one in three will let their policy lapse before they die....

The average household spent an astonishing $723 on cable and satellite television service in 2014, according to the Consumer Expenditure Sur...

Women's share of selected professional degrees awarded in 2012-13... Veterinary: 77.3% Optometry: 63.4% Pharmacy: 61.6% Dentistry: ...

Nearly 18 million Americans aged 16 or older were victims of identity theft in 2014, according to the Bureau of Justice Statistics—7.0 perce...

Among women with children under age 18, the majority would prefer to stay at home and take care of house and family instead of having a job ...

Is there a shortage of marriageable men in the 25-to-34 age group? That's the question posed by Isabel Sawhill and Joanna Venator of the...

In a reversal of past trends, the white population is growing in the nation's largest cities, according to an analysis of the American C...

It's not easy to uncover information about the nation's transgender population. The Census Bureau does not include questions about s...