On November 25 the Census Bureau released its latest package of tables describing American families and living arrangements. These tables highlight the growing complexity of…
The U.S. fertility rate is at near replacement level, where a woman bears two children over her lifetime (just enough to ‘replace’ herself and her partner). The Total…
The Census Bureau recently released 2012 population estimates for cities and towns to complement the 2012 population estimates for metropolitan areas released in March. With…
The Census Bureau recently released its high and low immigration series population projections going out to 2060, complementing its middle series released in December 2012. …
In 1960 almost half of all households were families with children under 18. Since then, the number has fallen to under 30 percent (Figure 1). By definition, the declining…
The Census Bureau recently released its usual extensive Current Population Survey (CPS)-based package of tables on geographic mobility for 2011-12. A new feature of this…
Just as James Carville reminded Governor Bill Clinton and his staff to stay focused in his campaign for the Presidency with his now-famous 1992 posting of the words “The…
Demographers and other analysts have yet to reach a consensus about how we define post-WWII generations – regarding both naming the generations and defining the age spans…
Every ten years the Decennial Census provides a definitive count of the country’s population and households, a critical benchmark of decadal growth trends in these key…
Over the next two decades, the entire baby boom generation (age 45-64 in 2010) will cross the 65+ age threshold. Baby boom homeowners have dominated housing markets for so…
