Demography
The Daily Yonder: "Over the past decade, the rural population declined by 0.6% but simultaneously became nearly 4 percentage points more diverse. That represents a nearly 20% increase in the portion of rural residents who are members of a racial or ethnic minority. In the following article,...
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06/01/22In this article The Hill reports, "More than half of American cities registered a loss of population over the last year as people flocked to suburbs...
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05/20/22In this Washington Post article, Carsey demographer Ken Johnson observes, "TheÌıstory of Greene County is the story of much of rural America, where...
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05/01/22In this Associated Press article, Carsey School Senior Demographer Kenneth Johnson discusses the implications of the U.S. Census Bureau changing the...
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03/31/22New data from theÌıU.S. Census Bureau show 62 of America’s 100 largest counties lost population between July 2020 and July 2021 during peak pandemic....
Recent Stories
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09/14/18 -Professor Kenneth Johnson discusses the decline in births since the recession.
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09/14/18 -All Things Considered host Peter Biello speaks with Ken Johnson on new census data showing N.H. continues to gain population from domestic migration.
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09/13/18 -As Kenneth Johnson puts it, “migration is the wild card, the big unknown†for New Hampshire’s population growth.
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09/13/18 -Kenneth Johnson explains how in the decade since the recession, American women had 4.8 million fewer babies thanÌıdemographers were expecting.
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08/15/18 -“For decades, the Economic Research Service hasÌıprovided fact based, definitive research on agricultural, economic, demographic and social conditions in rural America. They have...
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05/17/18 -American women are having children at the lowest rate on record.Ìı
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04/30/18 -They are neither pollsters nor television cable news panelists — and they did not predict Donald Trump’s victory — but demographer Kenneth Johnson and election law expert...
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03/28/18 -What's affecting all of those categories now, population analysts say, is the end of the Great Recession. Young people, burdened with student debt and unable to find jobs tended...