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Once Viewed As Easy Cash Source, Second Mortgage Market Collapsed Over Decade
The number of American homeowners who are paying for both a primary and secondary mortgage or home equity loan has fallen by roughly one-half since 2009, according to ... more
Number of Disabled Americans Grew At Twice Rate of Total Population Over Last 6 Years
The ranks of disabled Americans climbed by more than 3 million people between 2012 and 2018, a rate of growth that was more than twice as much as the growth in the ove... more
Income Gap Rose in Four of Five U.S. Metro and Micro Areas During Decade
The gap between rich and poor Americans has risen in more than four of every five U.S. metropolitan and micropolitan areas during the last decade, according to a Socia... more
ACS 2014-2018 5-Year Estimates Now on Social Explorer
With the ACS 2014-2018 5-Year Estimates now available on Social Explorer, ring in the new year by exploring the latest data on over 40 demographic topics. Conducted by... more
Announcing new additions to the SE Layer library!
We recently updated our Layer library on Social Explorer, adding a number of exciting new map layers. Head over to our layer library and start exploring nearly eighty ... more
Social Explorer Featured in NY Times Article on Homelessness in LA
In "Black, Homeless and Burdened by L.A.’s Legacy of Racism," reporters Jugal K. Patel, Tim Arango, Anjali Singhvi and Jon Huang detail how discriminat... more
Economic Recovery Proceeds Unevenly, As Poverty Rates Climb Among Most Cities
Even as overall poverty in the U.S. has fallen during the last decade, more than two-thirds of its cities have registered increases in the number of poor Americans, ac... more
SE’s Co-Founder on 2020 Census Data Products at the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine Workshop
Social Explorer’s President and co-founder, Prof. Andrew Beveridge, participated in the Workshop on 2020 Census Data Products: Data Needs and Privacy Considerati... more
Housing Collapse Led to Ownership Decline in 85 Percent of U.S. Places
The percentage of Americans living in their own homes declined in more than 85 percent of U.S. cities between 2009 and 2017, according to a Social Explorer analysis. T... more
As Nation’s Economy Recovers, Many Marriages Don’t
The economy has continued to recover from the 2008 financial crisis, but an increasing number of marriages haven’t, according to a Social Explorer analysis. The ... more