October 31, 2008

State and Local Employees

Local governments accounted for 12.1 million full-time equivalent employees, and state governments had 4.3 million. Most full-time equivalent state and local employees worked in education (8.8 million), hospitals (989,000), police protection (933,000) and corrections (731,000). These data, and much more,...
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October 16, 2008

Capital Expenditures By US Businesses

Capital spending by all US businesses rose 14.3 percent to a record high $1.31 trillion, in 2006. This represents a $165 billion increase from the $1.14 trillion in capital spending reported in 2005 and surpasses the previous high of $1.16...
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October 03, 2008

Federal Government Expenditures in 2007

Retirement and disability payments to individuals accounted for $783 billion (more than 30 percent) of total federal spending in 2007. Of that amount, 80 percent, or $623 billion, went to Social Security recipients. Social Security was composed of retirement insurance...
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September 19, 2008

Unmarried and Single Americans Week

In 2006 there were 86 unmarried men 18 and older for every 100 unmarried women in the United States. 54 percent of unmarried Americans 18 and older were women. There were 904 dating service establishments nationwide as of 2002. These...
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September 04, 2008

Income, Poverty, and Health Insurance Coverage in the United States

Based on information collected in the 2008 and earlier Annual Social and Economic Supplements (ASEC) to the Current Population Survey (CPS) conducted by the U.S. Census Bureau, real median household income increased between 2006 and 2007 (the third annual increase),...
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August 22, 2008

The 65 and older age group is projected to increase to 88.5 million in 2050, more than doubling the number in 2008 (38.7 million). The 85 and older population is expected to more than triple, from 5.4 million to 19...
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August 08, 2008

Nonemployers are Big Business

In 2006, more than 20.7 million U.S. businesses without a payroll (nonemployers) had a total revenue of more than $970 billion. Three economic sectors accounted for almost half of all nonemployer business receipts: real estate and rental and leasing ($193...
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July 24, 2008

Unmarried and Single Americans Week (September 21-27, 2008)

In 2006, there were 92 million unmarried Americans 18 and older - 42 percent of all US residents 18 and older. Of unmarried Americans 18 and older, 60 percent have never been married. For every 100 unmarried women in the...
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July 10, 2008

National Processing Center Turns 50

The National Processing Center opened its doors on July 1, 1958, as a temporary facility to prepare and process work for the censuses of business, manufacturers and minerals industry, and the 1960 Census. Fifty years later, NPC has grown into...
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June 26, 2008

World Population Approaches 7 Billion

World population is projected to reach 7 billion in 2012 says the Census Bureau's International Data Base (IDB). The latest projections show world population growing at a slower pace during the first half of the 21st century than the latter...
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June 13, 2008

Veterans Earn More

Women veterans had higher salaries than nonveterans in 2005, but they also worked more hours in a week and more weeks out of the year, according to a new analysis of data from the U.S. Census Bureau. Women veterans earned...
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May 29, 2008

Fewer Mothers With a Recent Birth Rely on Government Assistance Than in 1996

The report, Participation of Mothers in Government Assistance Programs: 2004 (PDF - 452 KB), analyzes the socioeconomic characteristics of mothers participating in six different public assistance programs. It shows that in 1996, 42 percent of mothers with a birth in...
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May 16, 2008

Support Not Just For Children

Support payments totaled $43.4 billion in 2005, an average of $5,600 per provider annually. Data from the Support Providers: 2005. This report shows that monetary support is primarily for children, although it also includes support for other non-household members, such...
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May 01, 2008

Money from Uncle Sam

The federal government disbursed $2.45 trillion in domestic spending in 2006, representing a 7.5 percent increase in federal spending over 2005. Per capita spending among states was highest for Louisiana ($16,263). Mississippi was second ($14,516), followed by Alaska ($13,805). The...
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April 17, 2008

Pollution is a Big Deal

In 2005, pollution abatement capital expenditures amounted to $5,907.8 million. Of this total, $3,112.7 million was attributed to treatment/capture, $372.6 million to recycling, $318.3 million to disposal, and $2,104.2 million to prevention. Pollution abatement operating costs amounted to $20,677.6 million....
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April 04, 2008

July 1, 2007 Population Estimates for Metropolitan and Micropolitan Areas

The 50 fastest-growing metro areas were concentrated in two regions - 27 in the South and 20 in the West. New York was the most populous metro area on July 1, 2007, with 18.8 million people, followed by Los Angeles...
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March 21, 2008

New Orleans' Parishes Top Nation in Population Growth Rate

St. Bernard and Orleans, two Louisiana parishes hit hard by Hurricane Katrina in 2005, were the nation's fastest-growing counties in 2007, according to the newest population estimates released by the U.S. Census Bureau. St. Bernard, the nation's fastest-losing county from...
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March 06, 2008

Treasure Trove of Data on County and Cities!

For cities with populations of 25,000 or more, Redmond, WA was the rainiest with an annual average of 82.86 inches. Calexico, CA and El Centro, CA both had the distinction of having the lowest annual precipitation at 2.96 inches. On...
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February 22, 2008

Women's History Month Coming in March

Did you know there are about 84,000 female police officers, 9,000 women firefighters, 315,000 lawyers, 278,000 physicians and surgeons, and 37,000 pilots in the United States? March is Women’s History Month and to help celebrate, our Facts for Features site...
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February 08, 2008

New Estimates Released!

The Census Bureau has released July 1, 2007 estimates showing the total number of residents in each state, the total population age 18 and older, and the percentage of the total population 18 and older (the estimates do not reflect...
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January 25, 2008

Super Bowl - Super Cities

New York ranks first on the list of the nation's most populous cities with an estimated 8.3 million people. Boston ranks 23rd with 595,698 people, and Glendale ranks 16th with 6.3 million people. Super Bowl XLII will be played Feb....
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January 10, 2008

Ancestry

Thirty-six million US residents claim Irish ancestry. Irish is the second most reported ancestry, trailing only German. Twenty-four percent of Massachusetts residents are of Irish ancestry, compared to a corresponding rate of 12 percent for the nation as a whole....
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December 27, 2007

Happy New Year!!

As our nation prepares to ring in the new year, the U.S. Census Bureau projected that the Jan. 1, 2008, population will be 303,146,284 -- up 2,842,103 or 0.9 percent from New Year's Day 2007. In January, the United States...
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December 14, 2007

Keep On Truckin'

U.S. commercial trucks traveled 91 billion miles in 2006, a number equal to nearly 200,000 round trips to the moon, with revenues reaching $220 billion. Of that amount, motor carrier revenue equaled $204 billion, with 67 percent from long-distance trucking...
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November 30, 2007

Notice a Change on the Census Home Page?

The 2010 Census is less than three years away, so we've replaced the Census 2000 logo with the 2010 Census icon on our home page. You can access the latest news and information about the 2010 Census from this icon....
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November 15, 2007

Here's What We Do!

The Decennial Census has been referred to as the largest peacetime mobilization in U.S history. While a task of that magnitude might seem enough to monopolize all of our time, we are also responsible for conducting nearly one hundred other...
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November 02, 2007

A Day in the Life of a Child

A Child's Day: 2004 examines the well-being of children younger than 18 and provides an updated look into how they spend their days. This series of 30 tables published by the U.S. Census Bureau is based on the Survey of...
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October 18, 2007

Packing Up!

In 2006, 39.8 million United States residents moved within the previous one-year period. Nearly half of the reasons given for moving (18.4 million) were housing related, such as wanting a bigger or smaller house. In 2006, nearly one-third (30 percent)...
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October 04, 2007

New Data Available for Group Quarters Population

Nationally, 8.1 million people were living in group quarters in 2006, or about 2.7 percent of the total population, according to the Census Bureau's Population Estimates Program. New data from the American Community Survey provide the first social and economic...
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September 21, 2007

Reasons People Do Not Work

Of the estimated 227 million people 15 years and older who resided in the United States in the first quarter of 2004, nearly 79 million (35 percent) had not worked at a paid job for at least the prior four...
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September 07, 2007

Income in the United States

Real median household income rose between 2005 and 2006 in 15 states and the District of Columbia, while no states experienced a decline. Seven states that experienced increases were in the West (Arizona, California, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah and...
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August 23, 2007

Employment Facts

In the news recently is the August 1 bridge collapse on I-35 West in Minneapolis. In 2004, 81,000 people worked within one mile of the I-35 bridge corridor. Of these, 44.2 percent worked in Hennepin County, which encompasses Minneapolis, 19.2...
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August 09, 2007

Back-to-School Shopping

In August 2006, 7.1 billion dollars were spent at family clothing stores. Only in November and December — the holiday shopping season — were sales significantly higher. Similarly, sales at bookstores in August 2006 totaled $2.1 billion, an amount approached...
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July 27, 2007

Familiies and Living Arrangements

According to Families and Living Arrangements: 2006, in 2006 the majority of men and women had been married by the time they were 30 to 34 (71 percent), and among men and women 65 and older, 96 percent had been...
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July 12, 2007

Any Volunteers?

A new report released by the Corporation for National and Community Service shows that Minneapolis has the highest percentage of people who volunteer at 40.5 percent of its residents aged 16 and older. Las Vegas has the lowest percentage of...
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June 29, 2007

Local Employment Dynamics

Of the 99 counties in Iowa, 95 counties experienced an increase from 2001 to 2004 in the percentage of the county workforce that was 55 and older. The largest increase was in Jefferson County. This and much more information comes...
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June 15, 2007

U.S. Adds 112,000 New Employer Establishments in 2005

The nation added 112,000 new business establishments with paid employees between 2004 and 2005, contributing to 1.24 million new jobs and a 5.4 percent increase in the annual payroll for all such establishments, according to the latest County Business Patterns...
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June 01, 2007

Public Education Finances

The nation's public school districts spent an average of $8,701 per student on elementary and secondary education in fiscal year 2005, up 5 percent from $8,287 the previous year. Findings from Public Education Finances: 2005, show that New York spent...
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May 18, 2007

Extended Measures of Well-Being

The living standards of U.S. households are traditionally measured by income. A recent Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP) report takes a different approach. Extended Measures of Well-Being: Living Conditions in the United States, 2003 (PDF - 488kb) (released...
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May 04, 2007

Homeownership Rates Remain Stable

The U.S. homeownership rate in the first quarter 2007 (68.4 percent) was not statistically different from the first quarter 2006 rate (68.5 percent). The homeownership rates in each region also were not statistically different from rates one year ago. For...
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April 18, 2007

Information and Communication Technology Equipment

In 2005, U.S. businesses with employees spent a total of $233.4 billion on both noncapitalized ($91.8 billion) and capitalized ($141.6 billion) information and communication technology equipment, including computer software, an increase of 2.4 percent from the 2004 revised estimate ($228.0...
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April 06, 2007

Single-Parent Households Show Little Variation Since 1994

The percentage of households headed by single parents showed little variation from 1994 through 2006, at about 9 percent, up from 5 percent in 1970, according to the latest data on America's families and households. Data are from the 2006...
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March 23, 2007

Capital Expenditures

The Census Bureau's Annual Capital Expenditures: 2005 report provides timely information on capital investment in structures and equipment by nonfarm business. Among business sectors for companies with employees, during calendar year 2005 the manufacturing sector led the way in capital...
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March 08, 2007

March is Women's History Month

National Women's History Month's roots go back to March 8, 1857, when women from New York City factories staged a protest over working conditions. International Women's Day was first observed in 1909, but it wasn't until 1981 that Congress established...
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February 23, 2007

The Asian Population

The report "The American Community - Asians: 2004," shows that about one-half of Asians in the United States lived in three states -- California, New York, and Texas. California (with about 35 percent), had more than one-third of the Asian...
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February 09, 2007

LUCA Program Integral Part of 2010 Census

The Local Update of Census Addresses program, also known as LUCA, is a decennial census partnership program that allows the Census Bureau to benefit from local knowledge in developing its Master Address File (MAF) for the 2010 Census. Tribal and...
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January 24, 2007

Super Sunday Spotlights Three Super Cities

The Indianapolis Colts play the Chicago Bears in Super Bowl XLI on Sunday, February 4. In Indianapolis, 784,118 residents will be hoping to ride their Colts to a world championship. As for the Bears, Chicago boasts 2.8 million residents ready...
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January 11, 2007

Who's Moving? Geographic Mobility Data Have the Answers

When people move, they often don't go far. Of the 40 million people who moved between 2004 and 2005, 22.7 million made a move within the same county and 7.8 million moved to a different county within the same state....
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December 28, 2006

New Population Estimates Available!

The Population Estimates Program publishes total resident population estimates and demographic components of change (births, deaths, and migration) each year (containing a reference date of July 1). According to recently released population estimates, Texas gained more people than any other...
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December 14, 2006

75 Percent Owner-Occupied Rate in Puerto Rico

In Puerto Rico, 74.5 percent of the occupied housing units are owner-occupied. In the U.S. the ownership rate is 66.9 percent. Only a few states have ownership rates comparable to Puerto Rico's: Michigan, Minnesota, New Hampshire, and West Virginia. The...
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December 01, 2006

Urban Poverty

High poverty rates (20 percent or more) affect many of the nation's cities, especially the larger ones, according to data from the 2005 American Community Survey. Geographic Comparison Table GCT 1701 in American FactFinder lists almost 500 cities (all 65,000...
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November 17, 2006

78 Percent of Homes Heat With Fuel Oil or Kerosene in Maine, Over Nine Times the U.S. Average

Fuel oil, kerosene, gasoline, alcohol, and other combustible fluids help homes in Maine cope with the bitter cold of winter. Over 87 percent of the homes (over 423,000) use this as their principal fuel. Vermont and New Hampshire at 56...
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November 03, 2006

State and Metropolitan Area Data Book

The top five metro areas in the proportion of doctors to the population each have more than 1,000 physicians per 100,000 persons, according to data published in the Census Bureau's State and Metropolitan Area Data Book, now available online and...
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October 19, 2006

Survey of Business Owners (SBO) Shows 49 Percent of Firms Were Home-Based in 2002

Approximately 49 percent of the 16.7 million respondent firms in the 2002 Survey of Business Owners reported that they were home-based. (Respondent firms are ones that submitted information on owner characteristics in the survey or stated that they were publicly...
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October 06, 2006

Why People Move

When people move outside their county or from abroad, quite often a new job or a job transfer is the motivation. In 2005, of the 15.3 million people over the age of one-year-old who moved to a new county, 3.1...
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September 21, 2006

23 Million Companies Generated $23 Trillion in Receipts

In 2002, the US had 23 million nonfarm U.S. businesses, employing 110.8 million persons and generating $22.6 trillion in business revenues. Firms with paid employees accounted for 5.5 million or 24.0 percent of these businesses and $21.8 trillion or 96.6...
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September 08, 2006

Scholars Pay Many Dollars, Receive Some Too

Full-time college students pay an average of $10,560 in college costs per year (tuition, books, room, and board) according to 2001-2002 data from the Survey of Income and Program Participation. Student aid averaged $6,291 and came from Pell Grants (average:...
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August 23, 2006

Nonemployers Get a Piece of the Action

The Las Vegas-Paradise, Nevada metro area has about 7,800 gambling establishments, with a total of over $1 million in receipts, that are nonemployers - that is, establishments with no paid employees. This includes establishments (except casino hotels) primarily engaged in...
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August 11, 2006

Business Statistics for ZIP Code Areas

Running short of gas as you enter the Smokies? In Asheville, NC, the gateway to the Smokies, the ZIP Code where you are most likely to find a gas station is 28806. It had 29 gas stations counted in the...
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July 28, 2006

Housing Features, Amenities, Finance, and More in 2005 American Housing Survey

In 2005, the nation's homes numbered 124,377,000. Of these 108 million were occupied units. Almost 98.8 million of all units were in metro areas; those in the suburbs (59.0 million) outnumbered those in central cities (35.8 million). Water came from...
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July 14, 2006

Cold Facts on Household Appliances and Other Manufactured Goods

Shipments of household refrigerators and freezers increased 8 percent from $5.5 billion in 2004 to $6.0 billion in 2005, according to the Census Bureau's latest Current Industrial Report on Major Household Appliances. These figures include shipments of parts and attachments....
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June 30, 2006

American Indian and Alaska Native Firms

Of the nation's 201,637 firms owned by American Indians or Alaska Natives, 16 percent (32,253) were in construction, tops among industries. The Census Bureau has released these data from the 2002 Survey of Business Owners. The results are available online...
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June 15, 2006

Special Tabulation Shows Effects of 2005 Hurricanes

After the devastating hurricanes of late summer 2005, the states of Alabama, Louisiana, and Mississippi showed a decline in population while Texas showed an increase. Read about the details of the pre- and post-hurricane situation in the Census Bureau's special...
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June 02, 2006

Los Angeles County Way Ahead in Number of Asian-Owned Firms

Results from the 2002 Survey of Business Owners show that Los Angeles County, the nation's most populous, had almost three times as many Asian-owned firms (140,411) as number two Queens, NY (48,241). In fact, the county had more firms than...
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May 19, 2006

California Lost Over 99,000 a Year From 2000 to 2004

Outmigration from California, our largest state, averaged over 99,000 annually between 2000 and 2004, according to a recent Census Bureau report on Domestic Net Migration in the United States: 2000 to 2004. Total outmigration during this period was 396,156. This...
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May 04, 2006

Twelve Percent Speak Spanish at Home, American Community Survey Shows

Nationally 11.5 percent of people age 5 and above speak Spanish at home, according to findings from the 2004 American Community Survey. Ten states exceed the U.S. average; the rest fall below. Leading the list is New Mexico (29.2 percent),...
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April 20, 2006

Per Pupil Spending on Education Tops $10,000 in Seven States and the District of Columbia

Average spending per pupil for elementary and secondary school systems spending in the U.S. was $8,287 in 2003-2004. Seven states spent in excess of $10,000 per student: Alaska ($10,114), Connecticut ($10,788), Delaware ($10,228), Massachusetts ($10,693), New Jersey ($12,981), New York...
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April 06, 2006

Naturalized Citizens: Asian Alone and When They Arrived

About 3.9 million naturalized citizens identified themselves as Asians alone. Only 2 percent arrived on our shores in 2000 or after. A quarter came during the 90s, over a third came during the 80s, just over a quarter came during...
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March 23, 2006

Georgia Has Most Counties in Top 100 Fastest Growing

According to the latest Census Bureau population estimates, Georgia has the greatest number of counties (18) on the top 100 fastest-growing counties list. This is followed by Florida (14) and Texas (13). Most of the Georgia growth counties are among...
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March 09, 2006

Men Less Likely To Visit a Doctor

Results from the 2001 Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP) suggest that men are less likely than women to visit the doctor and to use medical services. Almost one-third of men reported never seeing a doctor in the past...
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February 24, 2006

Carolinas Lead in Mobile Homes

South Carolina leads the nation in the percentage of houses that are mobile homes (18.8 percent), followed by North Carolina (16.8), New Mexico (16.6), and West Virginia (16.0). At the bottom of the list are Hawaii (0.2), New Jersey (0.9),...
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February 10, 2006

Chow Mein, Cacciatore, or Fajitas?

According to the 2002 Economic Census, the U.S. had 195,659 full-service restaurants (i.e., restaurants where customers generally area are seated, served by wait staff, and pay after eating). Of this total, 17,415 were Italian restaurants; 17,395 were Chinese; 15,112 were...
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January 27, 2006

Women in the Northeast More Likely to Be Childless Than Women in Other Regions

Data from the June 2004 Current Population Survey show that women age 15 to 44 living in the Northeast were more likely to be childless (48 percent) than women in the South (43 percent), Midwest (44 percent), and West (46...
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January 12, 2006

Construction Work on Hotels and Motels Totaled $18.8 Billion in 2002

Construction work on hotels, motels, and tourist cabins was valued at $18.8 billion, according to the 2002 Economic Census. About $13.4 billion was for new construction; $3.5 billion was for additions, alterations, and reconstructions; and $1.8 billion was for maintenance...
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December 30, 2005

Population Estimates

According to the Census Bureau's population estimates as of July 1, 2005, Florida experienced the largest numerical population increase between 2004 and 2005, as its population rose by 404,000 people. Texas was not far behind, gaining 388,000. The five states...
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December 16, 2005

Fewest Elderly in Alaska

According to our July 1, 2004 population estimates, Alaska, 47th in total population, is the state that has the fewest people 65 years old and over. Almost 42,000 hardy seniors call Alaska home. Of these only 3,500 are 85 years...
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December 02, 2005

11 Metro Areas Have More Than 100 Business Establishments With 1,000 or More Employees

New York (325) and Chicago (251) lead the nation's metro areas in number of business establishments with 1,000 or more employees, according to annual Metropolitan Business Patterns data for 2002. In all, 11 metro areas had over 100 establishments with...
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November 17, 2005

Computer Games

About half of people age 18 and over using a computer at home use it to play games, according to the Census Bureau's recent report on Computer and Internet Use in the United States: October 2003 (http://www.census.gov/population/www/socdemo/computer.html). Younger folks were...
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November 03, 2005

2002 Economic Census Records 6,352 Companies Involved in Oil and Gas Extraction

Of the nation's 18,491 mining companies recorded in the 2002 Economic Census, one-third (6,532) are involved in oil and gas extraction. These companies operate 7,730 establishments - most in Texas, which has 2,990 establishments, more than double the total in...
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October 21, 2005

Half of Unmarried Mothers With Recent Births In Poverty

For 2000-2003, 29 percent of U.S. women with a birth in the last year were unmarried. Most states in the South had a higher percentage of mothers with a birth in the last year who were unmarried compared with the...
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October 07, 2005

Time Series Data for Cities

"What is the population of Edmond, Oklahoma? And what is its population history?" This is a question we received recently from a customer wanting to find this information online; it's the kind of question people ask us often. The first...
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September 22, 2005

Computer Hardware Led All Merchandise Lines in Online Sales in 2003

Computer hardware made up 17 percent of e-commerce sales, highest among merchandise lines in 2003. Total sales for this line was $6.7 billion. In addition, over 28 percent of all computer hardware sales were online. This information comes from the...
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September 08, 2005

South Carolina Has Highest Proportion of Mobile Homes

About 19 percent of the housing units in South Carolina are mobile homes, the highest of any state, according to results from the 2004 American Community Survey. North Carolina (16.8 percent), New Mexico (16.6 percent), West Virginia (16.0 percent), and...
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August 26, 2005

Group Quarters Population Numbered Almost 8 Million

The current group quarters population in the U.S. is 7,963,420, as of July 1, 2004. The Census Bureau collects additional detail on the group quarters population in the decennial census and in the interim, releases overall estimates at the state...
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August 12, 2005

Hispanic-Owned Firms Numbered 1.6 Million in 2002

Preliminary results from the Survey of Business Owners (formerly known as the Survey of Minority- and Women-Owned Businesses) show that Hispanic-owner firms numbered 1.6 million in 2002, up over 30 percent from 1997, the year of the last survey. Receipts...
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July 29, 2005

Counties Vary in Their Reliance on Property Taxes

On average counties depend on property tax for about a quarter of their revenue, but vary greatly from state to state. Counties in Vermont derive 89 percent of their revenue from property tax; in Massachusetts, only 6 percent. Learn about...
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July 14, 2005

Condos Have Median Asking Price of $260,500 Condominium apartments in buildings with five or more units, built in the last four quarters of 2004, had a median asking price of $260,500, according to recent statistics from the quarterly Survey of...
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June 30, 2005

East Coast States Tops in Per-Pupil Spending

In fiscal year 2002, the United States as a whole averaged $7,701 in per-pupil spending on elementary and secondary education, according to data from the 2002 Census of Governments. Nonetheless, states varied greatly in their amounts. Of the top 20...
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June 16, 2005

Our Aging Workforce The median age of the workforce in many states is rising. Look for the employment picture in your state in Profiles of Older Workers, a series of state reports providing data on the older workforce, the industries...
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June 03, 2005

Almost a Quarter of New One-Family Homes Completed in 2004 Have Three or More Bathrooms

New Census Bureau statistics show that about 361,000 of the 1.5 million new one-family homes completed in 2004 have three or more bathrooms. About 592,000 (39 percent) have two bathrooms and another 508,000 have two and a half baths (38...
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May 18, 2005

Older Americans

Between 2003 and 2004, 351,000 persons moved into the 65 and over age group. By the year 2050, the projected population in this cohort will be 86.7 million, representing a 147 percent increase between 2000 and 2050. By comparison, the...
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May 04, 2005

Median Household Income for Cities and Counties in 2002 and 2003

Median Household Income for Cities and Counties in 2002 and 2003 Every year when we release the official income and poverty statistics for the nation and states, customers tell us they want these data for smaller areas. One of the...
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April 22, 2005

Transportation Leads U.S. in Number of Manufacturing Employees, Annual Survey Shows

The transportation equipment subsector was the largest manufacturing employer in the economy, with 1.7 million workers. These statistics are based on the 2003 Annual Survey of Manufacturers. Overall, the nation’s manufacturers employed 13.8 million people in 2003, down from 14.5...
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April 08, 2005

Mobile Homes Cost More Out West

In January 2005, the average sales price of a mobile home in the West was $78,500, well above other regions and the U.S. average of $61,400, according to the Manufactured Homes Survey (MHS) sponsored by the U.S. Department of Housing...
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March 24, 2005

Tax time is around the corner and as of 2002, almost 98,000 tax preparation establishments (19,222 with paid employees and another 78,599 nonemployer establishments) were ready to help you with your taxes. This information comes from the Industry Series report...
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March 08, 2005

122.7 Million Housing Units at End of 2004

At the end of 2004, the U.S. had 122.7 million housing units, about 353,000 more than at the end of 2003. Of these, 107.5 million were occupied; 15.2 million were vacant and 3.5 million were seasonal vacants. Owner-occupied units numbered...
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February 25, 2005

Homeownership Over 70 Percent in 33 States

The national homeownership rate was 68.3 in 2003; 33 states had a homeownership rate over 70 percent. Low ownership rates are found in several populous states: New York (54.3 percent), California (58.9), and Texas (64.5). The Census Bureau releases annual...
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February 11, 2005

7.7 Million Owners of Employer Firms

Recent statistics from the 2002 Survey of Business Owners, part of the Economic Census, show the U.S. had 7.7 million owners of employer firms (firms with payroll as opposed to nonemployer firms where there are no paid employees). Over 70...
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January 28, 2005

U.S. Population Projected at 420 Million in 2050

In 2050, the nation's population will be 420 million people, according to Census Bureau projections. Half the population will be White alone, not Hispanic; the other half will be other races and Hispanics. (Note Hispanics may be any race.)...
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January 14, 2005

Data on Population with "Severe Work Disability" Collected in the

Customers occasionally call us asking for data on people having a "severe" work disability that renders them unable to work; customers look for these data in decennial census files such as Summary File 3 and cannot find them there....
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