Community college enrollment has been in decline nationally since peaking in 2010. This report puts the recent community college trends into perspective by reviewing community college enrollment from 2001 through 2017, and by examining concurrent trends that are related to community college enrollments. This report provides the reader with a better understanding of enrollment changes for students with different characteristics (such as age, gender, or race and ethnicity) as well as by enrollment intensity. In addition, community college enrollment trends are compared to other sectors of higher education. Furthermore, this report examines enrollment trends in the context of other national, non-higher education trends such as unemployment rates and high school graduation rates to better understand the trends we are seeing in community college enrollment. The majority of the data used in this report comes from the Fall Enrollment Survey of the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS). All institutions that participate in the federal financial aid program are required to submit data to the U.S. Department of Education (ED) through IPEDS. IPEDS collects information on a range of postsecondary topics including graduation rates, finances, human resources, completions, and enrollment. For the purposes of this paper, the annual Fall Enrollment Survey was used as the primary data source. Data from each year were used to look at enrollment trends across a 17-year period. One exception to the annual use of data was on enrollment by age, as this data is only required to be reported by institutions every other year. Several other sources of national and federal data--to the extent possible--were used to provide a context for the enrollment data. Data sources include the monthly unemployment rate from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), high school graduation counts and projections, and high school graduation rates from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES).