Crime in the U.S.: Key questions answered | Pew Research Center
WEBApr 24, 2024 · Both the FBI and BJS data show dramatic declines in U.S. violent and property crime rates since the early 1990s, when crime spiked across much of the nation. Using the FBI data, the violent crime rate fell 49% between 1993 and 2022, with large decreases in the rates of robbery (-74%), aggravated assault (-39%) and …
Two Decades Later, the Enduring Legacy of 9/11
WEBSep 2, 2021 · Two Decades Later, the Enduring Legacy of 9/11. Americans watched in horror as the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, left nearly 3,000 people dead in New York City, Washington, D.C., and Shanksville, Pennsylvania. Nearly 20 years later, they watched in sorrow as the nation’s military mission in Afghanistan – which began less than a …
Facts About the U.S. Black Population | Pew Research Center
WEBJan 18, 2024 · The median age of Black people in 2022 was 32.1 years, nearly six years younger than the U.S. population’s median age of 38.0. Roughly 30% of the entire Black population was below the age of 20 while 12% were 65 or older. Just under half of the U.S. Black population (45%) was younger than 30 in 2022.
Social Media Use in 2021 | Pew Research Center
WEBApr 7, 2021 · Despite a string of controversies and the public’s relatively negative sentiments about aspects of social media, roughly seven-in-ten Americans say they ever use any kind of social media site – a share that has remained relatively stable over the past five years, according to a new Pew Research Center survey of U.S. adults.. Beyond the …
Key facts about Americans and guns | Pew Research Center
WEBJul 24, 2024 · Pew Research Center conducted this analysis to summarize key facts about Americans’ relationships with guns. We used data from recent Center surveys to provide insights into Americans’ views on gun policy and how those views have changed over time, as well as to examine the proportion of adults who own guns and their reasons for doing …
Religion in America: U.S. Religious Data, Demographics and …
WEBExplore religious groups in the U.S. by tradition, family and denomination. Christian 70.6%. Evangelical Protestant 25.4%. Baptist Family (Evangelical Trad.) 9.2%. Southern Baptist Convention 5.3%. Independent Baptist (Evangelical Trad.) 2.5%. Missionary Baptist (Evangelical Trad.) < 0.3%. Conservative Baptist Association of America.
Where Millennials end and Generation Z begins | Pew Research …
WEBJan 17, 2019 · Pew Research Center has been studying the Millennial generation for more than a decade. But by 2018, it became clear to us that it was time to determine a cutoff point between Millennials and the next generation. Turning 38 this year, the oldest Millennials are well into adulthood, and they first entered adulthood before today’s …
What the data says about abortion in the U.S. - Pew Research Center
WEBMar 25, 2024 · The CDC says that in 2021, there were 11.6 abortions in the U.S. per 1,000 women ages 15 to 44. (That figure excludes data from California, the District of Columbia, Maryland, New Hampshire and New Jersey.) Like Guttmacher’s data, the CDC’s figures also suggest a general decline in the abortion rate over time.
What we know about unauthorized immigrants living in the U.S.
WEBJul 22, 2024 · The total number of unauthorized immigrants in the U.S. from countries other than Mexico grew rapidly between 2019 and 2022, from 5.8 million to 6.9 million. The number of unauthorized immigrants from almost every world region increased. The largest increases were from the Caribbean (300,000) and Europe and Canada (275,000).
The 2020 electorate by party, race, age, education, religion: Key ...
WEBOct 26, 2020 · ABOUT PEW RESEARCH CENTER Pew Research Center is a nonpartisan, nonadvocacy fact tank that informs the public about the issues, attitudes and trends shaping the world.It does not take policy positions. The Center conducts public opinion polling, demographic research, computational social science research and other data-driven …