Aging Population and Migration

Over the past several decades, the median age of the population has been steadily rising from 29.3 in 1980 to 37.8 in 2023. People are waiting longer to start families and having fewer children. The impacts of this are well known: the stress on Social Security and...
Changing Demographics

Changing Demographics

This weekend, the New York Times published an article titled “How a Vast Demographic Shift Will Reshape the World”. Of course, it caught our eye. The article talked about how the world is going to experience a major shift, particularly in age, over the next few...

Only Fools Rush In

As many of you know, after many delays the Census Bureau finally released the DHC (Demographic and Housing Characteristics) file at the end of May. This eagerly anticipated set of files includes many essential core tables, such as population by age and sex, race by...

Why AGS: Unparalleled Range of Data

One of the things that makes AGS so unique is that we are truly a one-stop data shop. We have over 40,000 raw elements for every block group nationwide and select elements for census blocks. These elements range from demographics to neighborhood segmentation to...