Publications

The American middle class is losing ground in metropolitan areas across the country, affecting communities from Boston to Seattle and from Dallas to Milwaukee.

Major U.S. metro areas mapped by low, middle and upper income tiers. Data is from 2014.

Changing diapers and arranging play dates is a world apart from running the carpool and helping with college applications.

Anyone who has filed a U.S. tax return, applied for a Social Security number or signed up for Medicare has given personal data to the government. So when the Census Bureau counts the American public, can it use the information that other federal agencies have already collected?

The immigrant population in Texas has grown rapidly in recent decades, reaching 4.5 million in 2014. That puts Texas in a tie with New York for the second largest state immigrant population by size.

The world was home to nearly half a million people ages 100 and older in 2015, more than four times as many as in 1990. And this growth is expected to accelerate.

There were 55.3 million Hispanics in the United States in 2014, comprising 17.3% of the total U.S. population.

There were a record 42.2 million immigrants living in the U.S. in 2014, making up 13.2% of the nation’s population.

The nation’s largest annual demography conference, the Population Association of America meeting, featured new research on topics including couples who live in separate homes, children of multiracial couples, transgender Americans, immigration law enforcement and how climate change affects migration.

We gathered key facts for this year’s Population Association of America (PAA) meeting.