Article posted Thursday, October 11, 2012 11:10am

2,480

Average floor area of new single-family homes completed in the U.S. in 2011

220

Proposed minimum floor area of new rental units in San Francisco (it’s currently 290)

28.5

Percent of U.S. households that were single-person in 2010

9.5

Percent of U.S. households that were single-person in 1950

Percent of new small businesses owned by immigrants

$23,000

Median out-of-pocket expenses for Medicare beneficiaries in the last five years of life

Number of climbers who died on Mount Everest in April and May of 2012, the third highest spring total on record

Helicopter evacuations of climbers on Mount Everest in 2012

200

Number of people who summit Mount Everest on a single day in good conditions

Sources: Medicare Newsgroup; Chicago Tribune; Entrepreneur Country; Outside