Sociology

Detailed population and housing information about United States communities.

Browse reports and data by subject - family, immigration, religion, etc

health, religion, crime data

Tables and data from various sources arranged under the following topics: characteristics of the criminal justice systems; public attitudes toward crime and criminal justice-related topics; nature and distribution of known offenses; characteristics and distribution of persons arrested; judicial processing of defendants and persons under correctional supervision.

A concise and accurate explanation of various types of statistics such as correlational, descriptive and inferential that is provided by McGraw-Hill.

QuickFacts provides statistics for all states and counties, and for cities and towns with a population of 5,000 or more. Search here for statistics on age, housing, population, race, etc.

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