For more than 50 years, the Higher Education Research Institute at UCLA has been keeping track of the characteristics, attitudes, and behavi...

Homeownership rate of householders aged 35 to 39, first quarter 2019: 58.3% The Census Bureau is back on schedule in releasing its home...

In just 10 years, the number of bookstores in the United States fell from 12,558 to 7,548—a 40 percent decline, according to the Census Bure...

Two-thirds of American workers (67 percent) are confident they will have enough money to live comfortably throughout their retirement years,...

Fifty-three percent of American citizens aged 18 or older voted in the 2018 midterm election. That may not sound like much, but it is the hi...

Between 2010 and 2018, the nation's most urban counties grew faster than any other county type, according to the Census Bureau's cou...

American workers have a median age of 42, according to the Census Bureau's 2017 American Community Survey. But the median age of workers...

Only half of Americans aged 18 or older belong to a church, synagogue, or mosque, according to Gallup survey. The 50 percent of 2018 is a re...

Older Americans might be in trouble. They control a large share of the nation's wealth, yet many are not prepared to manage it. Cognitiv...

How many brothers and sisters do Americans aged 18 or older have? The 2018 General Social Survey asks about siblings with the question, ...

Nearly one in five Americans aged 15 or older (19 percent) participates in sports, exercise, or recreation on an average day, according to t...

The number of households with children under age 18 has fallen by more than 2 million since 2007 (the year births peaked in the U.S.), accor...

Overall, 61 percent of American households have a pet, according to the 2018 General Social Survey. Among Gen Xers, the share is 66 percent,...

Which is the bigger problem for the United States: people seeing racial discrimination where it really does NOT exist, or people NOT seeing ...

The wealth gap between Blacks and non-Hispanic Whites is huge. The median household wealth of non-Hispanic Whites was nearly 10 times that o...

The nation's 64.4 percent homeownership rate in 2018 was significantly higher than the 63.4 percent post-Great Recession low of 2016, ac...

Seventeen percent of the labor force is "underutilized," according to an analysis by the National Center for Education Statistics ...

Most Americans (58 percent) do not think the U.S. is divided into Haves and Have-nots, according to a Gallup Survey. While this figure is lo...

One year ago the nation's homeownership rate posted its first increase in more than a decade. At the time, Demo Memo asked , "Could...

Most Americans agree: there should be nondiscrimination protections for the LGBT population. Fully 69 percent of the public favors "law...