The Latest Breaking News from William Frey

The oldest baby boomers are turning 80 in 2026

New figures released by the U.S. Census Bureau show that 22% of U.S. residents spoke a language other than English at home

The world population grew by 75 million people over the past year and on New Year’s Day it will stand at more than 8 billion people

The immigrant population is growing fast in states far from the southern border. Employers in North Dakota say the economy needs more workers, but there's still deep ambivalence about immigration.

Change should come around 2045, study of updated US census data predicts, but author says ageing ‘is not race-neutral’

What will be the pandemic's lasting impact on where American families choose to settle down? It's still too soon to tell, but fresh data from the U.S. census provides some clues.

A fiscal “doom loop.” A transit “death spiral.” The “office apocalypse.” Since the traumatic disruption of the COVID-19 pandemic, these pessimistic terms have been applied repeatedly to the state of our cities. Analysis of Census data from my Brookings Institution colleague William Frey found that from 2020 to 2021, during…

The U.S. population center is on track this decade to take a southern swerve for the first time in history

Erika Harrison, a Houston attorney who has lived in the area since she was 5, started her blog, Black Girls Who Brunch, “to showcase the vibrant food scene beyond the franchise restaurants.” But recently, the blog has grown into much more than that.