According to federal statistics, the marriage rate in the United States returned to prepandemic levels in 2022. While this may be true for the country, we wanted to look at the figures for Wisconsin and neighboring states.

When Census tracts in Wisconsin are categorized by their median household’s income, those tracts in low-income tiers see a greater percentage of their households headed by single mothers than those in high-income tiers.

In Wisconsin, total fertility rate peaked in 1960 and sharply declined shortly after, falling below 2 in the early 1970s and only approaching it in recent years before turning downward again.

Housing prices have escalated in the past decade, but where you live plays an important role in how much it skyrocketed. In Wisconsin, the median price of a home varies significantly from county to county.

The average monthly electric bill for Wisconsinites has more than doubled over the past two decades.

Wisconsin primarily generates its electricity from coal and natural gas. The next three biggest sources (nuclear fuels, hydroelectric dams and wind) make up a small percentage of Wisconsin’s electricity generation.

Many campuses in the University of Wisconsin System have been described by analysts as struggling financially and at risk for future financial troubles. Here is presented the staffing and enrollment trends for UW-Green Bay.

Wisconsin’s largest metropolis, Milwaukee, has been one of the nation’s largest urban areas for decades, but its comparative position has changed.

Wisconsin experienced its warmest winter ever recorded in 2023-2024, according to a recent report by the Wisconsin State Climatology Office. The report’s authors attributed this to the unusually strong El Niño experienced this year, as well as a “long-term warming trend.”

Ridership on Milwaukee’s $128 million fare-free streetcar improved in 2023, when the annual number was 30% higher than 2022. But the monthly average number of riders over the last 12 months, 41,700, is still about 34% below the pre-pandemic average.

The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee recently announced that its Waukesha campus will close after the spring 2025 semester. Using data from the UW System’s accountability dashboard, we analyzed UWM’s enrollment and staffing levels relative to those of 20 years ago.

According to the U.S. Department of Energy, there has been an increase in the percentage of cars on the road that are all-electric. This number, however, remains minuscule in comparison to the number of vehicles with internal combustion engines.

A look at the 20 most populous Wisconsin cities in either the 1960 or the 2020 census. The outliers tell a story of places either falling behind and pulling ahead of the state’s overall growth.

Union membership as a percent of the workforce has been falling nationally for a long time — from about 1 in 4 private-sector workers in 1973 to less than 7% in 2023. The trend has been similar in Wisconsin.

The trend in average weekly earnings of all Wisconsin private-sector employees as measured by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics’ monthly survey of employers.

Have you considered moving to a different part of the state? One important thing to consider is the property tax you’ll pay in a different county. The amounts vary considerably.

Opioids are the leading cause of overdoses in Wisconsin, according to the state Department of Health Services’ most recent data. The figures, from 2014 through 2021, show considerable variation from county to county not only on the number of opioid overdoses but on the rate as well.

Wisconsin’s labor force participation rate — the share of the state’s civilian, noninstitutionalized population 16 and older who are either employed or looking for work — has long been a distinctive feature, consistently surpassing the national average.

A basket of groceries that would have cost $100 in January 2014 would now cost $127, according to the BLS’ consumer price index for “food at home” in the Midwest.

Single-parent households are still the minority among U.S. households with children. However, the share of households with children headed by a single parent — rather than by a married or unmarried couple — varies from state to state. According to Census data from 2022, Wisconsin has the 25th highest percentage of single-parent households among the states and the District of Columbia.