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America's college enrollment map is being redrawn

An area chart showing annual public high school graduates in the U.S. for graduating classes 1993-2024 and projections for 2025-2032. Graduations rose from 2.2m in 1993 and are expected to peak at 3.5m in 2025 and fall to 3.2m by 2032. The South has the largest number of graduates, followed by the West, Midwest, and Northeast in that order.


Annual public high school graduates in the U.S.

Data: National Center for Education Statistics; Chart: Erin Davis/Axios Visuals

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FBI: 2025 had biggest violent-crime drop in 90 years

A line chart that shows the U.S. annual violent crime rate per 100,000 people from 2006 to 2025. The rate falls from 477.3 in 2006 to 327.6 in 2025, the series low. It rises to 389.5 in 2022, then declines to 381.6 in 2023 and 362.9 in 2024.

U.S. reported annual violent crime rate

Data: FBI; Note: 2021 data was estimated due to a low number of agencies reporting; Chart: Noah Bressner/Axios

America's global student edge is slipping

A column chart that shows new international student enrollments at U.S. colleges by school year from 2015 to 2025. Enrollments fell from 301 thousand in 2015 to 146 thousand in 2020, rebounded to 299 thousand in 2023, then declined to an estimated 230 thousand in 2025.

New international student enrollments at U.S. colleges

Data: Open Doors, IIE; Chart: Erin Davis/Axios

The majority-minority shift changing rural America

A map showing rural counties in the U.S. as of 2023. Of 1,957 rural counties, 221, or 11.3% are majority-minority. Most of these counties are in the southwest, deep South, and Alaska.

Axios Visuals: 2026-08-04-rural-minority

Data: U.S. Census, USDA; Note: Census data and BLS rural designations are released in different years; Chart: Erin Davis/Axios Visuals

Violent crime keeps falling in biggest U.S. cities

A bar chart that shows the largest homicide declines among 66 major U.S. law enforcement agencies from Jan. 1 to June 30, 2025 to 2026. Newark, New Jersey, had the steepest drop at 64.7%, followed by Raleigh, North Carolina, at 63.6%. Memphis had the smallest decline among those shown at 43.7%.

Areas with the largest drops in homicides from H1 2025 to 2026

Data: Major Cities Chiefs Association (MCCA); Chart: Russell Contreras/Axios

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