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LendingTree | Summer is typically synonymous with road trips, beach getaways, family vacations and more. But for many Americans this year, rising travel expenses are making staying home the most appealing destination of all. According to a LendingTree survey of 2,000 U.S. consumers, transportation costs are squeezing travel budgets and forcing many to scale back, alter or cancel plans altogether. Here’s a closer look.

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LendingTree | Home insurance is a fast-rising household expense in America. Between 2020 and 2025, rates climbed a cumulative 46.8% nationally — and not a single state was spared from an increase. Here’s a closer look at where rates rose the most.

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LendingTree | The men’s soccer World Cup is coming to the U.S. for the first time in 32 years, but attending a match in person will cost fans an average of more than $2,100 per person. That staggering number, based on a LendingTree analysis of publicly available data, includes the cost of a match ticket, airfare, lodging, food and incidentals, and local transportation for one person attending any of the 52 group-stage matches in the U.S. this spring and summer.

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LendingTree | Almost 1 in 5 Americans 65 or older had a full-time or part-time job in 2025. That’s largely unchanged from two years earlier, according to a LendingTree analysis of U.S. Census Bureau data on the employment status of retirement-age Americans. However, a closer look at the data reveals significant differences by state in the percentage of 65-plus Americans who are still working, as well as notable variation across occupations.

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LendingTree | Buying a home is one of the biggest financial decisions many Americans will ever make, but too many buyers could leave tens of thousands of dollars on the table by skipping one simple step: shopping around. A LendingTree analysis finds that borrowers who compare mortgage offers could save an average of $62,572 over the life of a 30-year, fixed-rate mortgage — yet many still fail to do so.

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LendingTree | Property taxes are a growing burden for American homeowners, with costs rising across every major metro. Homeowners pay a median of more than $3,000 a year in property taxes, climbing 5.1% from 2023 to 2024. Here’s a closer look at where property taxes rose the most.

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LendingTree | America’s entrepreneurial spirit is alive and well — and younger Americans are leading the charge. According to a LendingTree analysis, new business applications hit a record high in 2025. Meanwhile, according to a survey of 2,000 U.S. consumers, more than 1 in 4 Americans (27%) say they’ve seriously considered starting a business in the past 12 months.

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LendingTree | A growing percentage of buy now, pay later (BNPL) users say they’ve paid late on one of these loans in the past year. Now, 47% of BNPL users have done so, up six percentage points from 2025 and 13 percentage points from two years ago. That’s just one of the troubling findings in LendingTree’s 2026 Buy Now, Pay Later Report. We asked consumers about their behaviors and perspectives regarding these popular loans. Along with increased late payments, we found that more users are buying groceries with these loans and carrying three or more BNPL loans at once, and that more than half of BNPL users say they wouldn’t be able to make ends meet without them.

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LendingTree | The average credit card interest rate in the U.S. rose to 23.79% in May, the first increase since September. LendingTree reviews about 220 of the most popular credit cards from over 50 issuers to analyze the current state of credit card interest rates. We publish our findings here.

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LendingTree | Americans have an absolute mountain of credit card debt — $1.252 trillion, to be exact. This credit card debt statistics page tracks Americans’ credit card use each month. We update this page regularly, examining the amount of debt people have, how often they carry a balance from month to month, how frequently they pay their credit card bills late and more.

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