Wendell Cox

3 weeks ago | newgeography.com | Wendell Cox |Lyman Stone

There is considerable concern about housing affordability in the United States. Housing is the most expensive element of the cost of living, which makes it an important issue to both households and governments. Indeed, the high cost of housing relative to income (i.e. the degree of affordability) is an existential threat to the future of the middle-class in some housing markets (metropolitan areas), and even threatens to jeopardize the demographic future of the republic.

Jan 13, 2025 | newgeography.com | Wendell Cox

Between 2000 and 2024, there has been substantial movement between the states — net domestic migration. The source of the data is the Census Bureau population estimates program, which is generally considered the best data on the subject. Data is available for each of the more than 3,100 counties or county equivalents in the nation.

Jan 13, 2025 | newgeography.com | Wendell Cox

Asbarez.com, the Glendale California based bilingual newspaper (Armenian and English) reported that Armenian “Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan’s government officially announced that it will back a bid for Armenia’s membership in the European Union” (EU) Asbarez added: “The government on Thursday essentially backed a bill on the ‘start of a process of Armenia’s accession to the European Union’ drafted by several political and civic groups, which collected around 60,000 signature in support of...

Jan 9, 2025 | newgeography.com | Wendell Cox

Data in the 2022 National Household Travel Survey (NTHS) provides insight into the daily frequency of daily commuting by the mode characterized as “usual” in survey (See: Summary of Travel Trends: 2022 National Household Travel Survey, Table 7-3, reproduced below as Figure 1). The annual American Community Survey (ACS), administered by the Census Bureau, asks respondents for their “usual” mode of travel over the past week.

Dec 31, 2024 | newgeography.com | Wendell Cox

by Wendell Cox 12/31/2024 For years, the US South has done very well in net domestic migration (moving into the region from another region of the United States. Since the 2020 census, only the South region gained net domestic migrants, as the other three regions, the Northeast, Midwest and West have all lost residents to other regions. Census RegionsOver the past four years (July 2020 to July 2024), the South gained 2,685,000 net domestic migrants.