December 29, 2017 by Zelman & Associates
Once a year, the Census Bureau releases population estimates for the country, states and local areas, which help to gauge trends between the more expansive decennial censuses. Last week, the national and state estimates as of July 2017 were ...
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December 15, 2017 by Zelman & Associates
According to a recent study released by the Census Bureau, 11.0% of the U.S. population moved in the year ended 1Q17. The study refers to this as the “mover rate” and notes that the latest reading was lower than 11.2% in the prior year, which ...
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December 15, 2017 by Zelman & Associates
Unlike the Baby Boomer generation that is generally accepted as being born over the 19 years covering 1946-64, varied definitions exist for the following Generation X or the more recent Millennials. From our perspective, the most logical segmentation ...
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baby boomersdemographicsmillennials
November 03, 2017 by Zelman & Associates
According to the Census Bureau, there were approximately 249 million adults in the United States as of its last population estimates in July 2016. Versus the prior year, growth in the adult population measured slightly less than 0.9%, the weakest ...
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apartmentsdemographicsmillennials
October 06, 2017 by Zelman & Associates
Baby boomers are accepted as the generation born from 1946-64. There were approximately 76 million births during these years, which was a robust 53% higher than the 19 years prior given overall population growth, the effects of the Great Depression ...
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September 22, 2017 by Zelman & Associates
We are of the opinion that while young adults are waiting longer to get married and form families relative to prior generations, there still exists a strong pull to the suburbs and single-family homes once they reach this point of their life, ...
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August 25, 2017 by Zelman & Associates
We recently detailed that “good” births, or births to women at least 25 years of age, were up 1.5% in 2016 based on preliminary estimates from the Center for Disease Control. While those estimates have been revised ...
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demographicsmillennials
July 14, 2017 by Zelman & Associates
As we have reported previously, there are approximately 16 million single-family rental homes across the country, accounting for almost 35% of all rental properties and clearly standing as a critical component of the housing supply chain. Looking ...
June 02, 2017 by Zelman & Associates
Final birth statistics for 2016 have yet to be released by the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, but we utilized preliminary data to estimate the results. We recently raised the question of whether ...
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demographics
May 19, 2017 by Zelman & Associates
The Census Bureau recently released data sourced from the Fertility Supplement to the Current Population Survey, which is an analysis conducted every other year about childlessness and children born to women by demographic characteristics such ...
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demographicsmillennials
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