by Elyse Menger | Sep 11, 2025 | Demographics
Ask people what metropolitan areas have grown the most over the past half century, and most people will be able to name several major metros that have exploded in size. Lurking below these are the mid-size metropolitan areas which often fail to be on the radar,...
by Elyse Menger | Aug 7, 2025 | Demographics
TikTok has made trends an inevitable part of being on social media. Depending on the niche your algorithm thinks you are most likely to identify with, you could be shown a variety of things. Into fashion? Your feed is likely full of slightly scary looking, so ugly...
by Gary Menger | Jun 5, 2025 | Demographics
In recent years, diversity has become one of our cultural buzzwords. Yes, the United States is more ethnically diverse, but does this translate to more diverse neighborhoods in our major cities? To find out, we used both our diversity measure and a categorical measure...
by Elyse Menger | May 1, 2025 | Demographics
Halfway through the decade, where are we from a population standpoint and growth hot spots? Looking at historical growth patterns, some of the recent phenomena of moving to places like Nashville don’t seem as shocking as it was made out to be during Covid. But what...
by Elyse Menger | Apr 24, 2025 | Data Releases, Demographics
Since the 1970s, the average age of Americans has been on a steady rise, creeping toward 40 years old. As we age, more and more people will need different living situations from the typical single-family home, either in an active senior or assisted living facility....
by Elyse Menger | Mar 6, 2025 | Demographics, Puerto Rico
The Census Bureau has long struggled with questions of identifying people groups which are defined by a mixture of race and ethnicity. In the 1980 census, separate questions were asked about race and ethnic origin, with the ethnic origin being limited to the concept...
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